How much does Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer give?

Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer reported 98 itemized grants totaling $5,397,248, out of $5,871,737 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 69 and 101 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Youth Development (3%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%).

Who are Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc ($5.5M), Olney Theatre Corporation Inc ($3.7M), Round House Theatre Inc ($2.8M).

Does Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nora Roberts Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.

Where is Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer based?

Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer is based in MD.

Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer

Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$5.9M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$600k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$47MYouth Development$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$907kEducation$668kPhilanthropy$490kReligion$388kHuman Services$369kHealth$158kOther$0

02FY2025 · 98 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 98 grants below total $5,397,248, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,871,737 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $474,489 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k34 grants · $306k
$10k–50k33 grants · $969k
$50k–250k27 grants · $2.4M
$250k+4 grants · $1.7M

$23,750

Median grant

States reached

$4.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$50M · 113 repeat orgs$721k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113

Total granted

$50M

$674k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+5%

Still filing today

76%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

TS
THE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $5.5M · revenue +11%
OT
OLNEY THEATRE CORPORATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +155%
RH
ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +68%

Funded once

AD
AMERICAN DANCE INSTITUTE
one grant, 2017 · $183k · revenue -81%
CC
CHINESE CULTURE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +65%
TI
THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE
one grant, 2021 · $85k · revenue +5%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Maryland Lyric Opera

Arts & Culture

Rhizome Dc

Supporting and showcasing the arts

Arts & Culture

4615 Theater Company Inc

Our mission is offer theatrical productions.

Arts & Culture

Synetic Theater Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Baltimore Theatre Project

Artistic Programs

Arts & Culture

Washington Community Theatre

Provide a low cost theatre options for the community of washington

Arts & Culture

Extreme Lengths Productions Inc

Extreme lengths productions is a dc- based arts collaborative

Arts & Culture

Constellations Chamber Concerts

Present a chamber music concert series and organize ancillary educational and community engagement activities and partnerships in the Washington, DC area.

Arts & Culture

Constella Arts

Constella Arts produces performances, educational presentations and digital content, along the way changing how people perceive classical music and the performing arts.

—

American Showcase Theatre Co Inc T/a MetroStage

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.

Arts & Culture

Art Music Society Inc

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,…

Arts & Culture

Martin Theater Inc

Presenting and producing the Performing Arts

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Story Tapestries Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

111 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

107/111

Grantees still filing

68/111

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$42,097,511Other$3,649,155Education$1,352,285Recreation & Sports$1,317,868Philanthropy$1,111,907Human Services$734,843Youth Development$730,372

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Nora Roberts FoundationMD50.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

39get no government money at all

31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

Play a game based on Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home