· Public charity
Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer
The ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMERy county, in partnership with the community, cultivates and supports excellence in the arts and humanities, expands access to cultural expression, and contributes to economic vitality in the region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 98 grants below total $5,397,248 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,871,737 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $474,489 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $306k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $969k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC | $600,000 |
| OLNEY THEATRE CORPORATION DBA OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $409,499 |
| IMAGINATION STAGE INC | $367,410 |
| ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC | $310,384 |
| LEVINE MUSIC INC | $170,595 |
| METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC DBA VISARTS | $160,397 |
| MARYLAND YOUTH BALLET INC | $141,484 |
| ADVENTURE THEATRE INC | $136,275 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND INC | $131,947 |
| NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC | $131,646 |
| GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC | $124,506 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $120,720 |
| DANCE EXCHANGE INC | $115,000 |
| GERMANTOWN CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC DBA BLACKROCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $114,739 |
| CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC | $111,151 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $725k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
113 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $5.5M · revenue +11%
- OTOLNEY THEATRE CORPORATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +155%
- RHROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +68%
Funded once
- ADAMERICAN DANCE INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $183k · revenue -81%
- CCCHINESE CULTURE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +65%
- TITHE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCEone grant, 2021 · $85k · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Supporting and showcasing the arts
Our mission is offer theatrical productions.
Washington DCs premier contemporary physical theater seeks to redefine theatre by devising a unique and innoivative blend of stage movement, dance, text, and music while investing in artists growth, and creating unforgettable visceral…
Artistic Programs
Provide a low cost theatre options for the community of washington
Extreme lengths productions is a dc- based arts collaborative
Present a chamber music concert series and organize ancillary educational and community engagement activities and partnerships in the Washington, DC area.
Constella Arts produces performances, educational presentations and digital content, along the way changing how people perceive classical music and the performing arts.
To produce an eclectic season of contemporary plays and musicals that are chosen to enrich, enlighten and entertain, and that reflect the diverse population of the Washington metropolitan area.
The primary purpose of the Art Music Society is to support musicians at the start of their professional careers by creating performing, recording, and publishing opportunities for performing artists, composers, theorists, musicologists,…
Presenting and producing the Performing Arts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Story Tapestries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Walking Shadow Readers Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
111 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 111 of the 147 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLNEY THEATRE CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND YOUTH BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds GERMANTOWN CULTURAL ARTS CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MOCO KIDSCO INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds The Writers Center ↗
- Who funds ARTPRENEURS INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY SPRING MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON REVELS INC ↗
- Who funds Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CLANCY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR THE AGING INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSTREAM INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION YOUTH MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTIVATE INC ↗
- Who funds STORY TAPESTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOCS IN PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING V LTD ↗
- Who funds LUMINA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORCHESTRA OF WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds PEERLESS ROCKVILLE HISTORIC PRESERVATION LTD ↗
- Who funds Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Nora Roberts Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Jim and Carol Trawick Foundation Inc · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Maryland Humanities Council Inc · Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inc · Maryland Historical Society Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boulanger Initiative — 75% of income from government
- Clancy Works Inc — 40% of income from government
- Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc — 21% of income from government
- Sandy Spring Museum Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Building Art Works — 18% of income from government
- Artpreneurs Inc — 18% of income from government
- Story Tapestries Inc — 16% of income from government
- Moco Kidsco Inc — 15% of income from government
- Flying V Ltd — 14% of income from government
- Imagination Stage Inc — 13% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Germantown Cultural Arts Centerinc — 10% of income from government
- Washington Revels Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Maryland Youth Ballet Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Writers Center — 6% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ballet Theatre Inc — 6% of income from government
- Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture Inc — 5% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Action Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- Arts for the Aging Inc — 2% of income from government
- Adventure Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- Olney Theatre Corporation Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.