· Public charity
Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Inc
To provide leadership, funding, and support that promotes artistic expression and historic preservation and to advocate for resources and education that expand arts opportunities for all, helping to create an enriched and healthy community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $812,773 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $919,022 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $106,249 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 $10k10 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $527k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER INC | $80,000 |
| MARYLAND HALL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS INC | $69,500 |
| CAPTAIN AVERY MUSEUM INC | $65,000 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL | $49,023 |
| MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART INC | $48,000 |
| ELIZABETH MYERS MITCHELL MUSEUMST JOHNS COLLEGE | $37,000 |
| ANNAPOLIS OPERA INCORPORATED | $34,000 |
| ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC | $33,500 |
| LONDON TOWN FOUNDATION INC | $33,500 |
| COMPASS ROSE STUDIO THEATER | $31,500 |
| ANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC | $31,500 |
| THE ANNAPOLIS CHORALE INC | $28,500 |
| THE BALLET THEATRE OF MARYLAND INC | $28,000 |
| ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL INC | $27,000 |
| CLASSIC THEATRE OF MARYLAND | $20,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +42% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- MHMARYLAND HALL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $609k · revenue +4%
- ASANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $367k · revenue +293%
- AOANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $364k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- CTCHILDRENS THEATRE OF ANNAPOLISone grant, 2024 · $62k
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDELone grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +16%
- SCSouth County Center for the Artsone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue -33%
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.
Arts, Culture, Education
Artistic Programs
Produce live professional theater through Shakespeare Festival and educational programs for both children and adults.
The mission of maryland opera, inc is (1) the promotion, production and performance in a variety of venues, of live opera experiences to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, (11) the creation and continuation of opera education and…
Provide free summer concerts to Southern Maryland and provide orchestra training to students ages 12-19 in Baltimore through our arm The Maryland Youth Symphony. Additional relation with Alba Music Festival for Debut Performances for…
To promote and produce Public Art for the enjoyment of the community and for the economic benefit of the community.
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,…
The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…
To promote theater performances in baltimore city
Our mission is offer theatrical productions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Banneker Douglas Museum Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 65 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 MARYLAND HALL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ballet Theatre of Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ANNAPOLIS CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds LONDON TOWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPTAIN AVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Banneker Douglas Museum Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPASS ROSE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds CLASSIC THEATRE OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ANNAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS SUMMER GARDEN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF ANNAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS LAB OF SOUTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOR AFRICAN CULTURES INC ↗
- Who funds HAMMOND-HARWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANGELWING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Naptown Philharmonic Orchestra ↗
- Who funds All Children's Chorus of Annapolis ↗
- Who funds THE TALENT MACHINE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL ↗
- Who funds Capital City Cultural Arts District Annapolis Arts District ↗
- Who funds Maryland Cultural and Conference Center Inc (formerly MD Theatre for the Perfor ↗
- Who funds FIDDLE PUPPET DANCERS INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GREATER ANNAPOLIS BALLET ↗
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: Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation · The Helena Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation · Arundel Community Development Services Inc · The Mhe Foundation Inc · William J and Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation Inc · Schuh Family Foundation Inc · Weir Foundation · Maryland Humanities Council Inc · American Gift Fund
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 Council of Anne Arundel County Inc 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.
- Banneker Douglas Museum Foundation Inc — 56% of income from government
- Historic Annapolis Inc — 45% of income from government
- Chesapeake Childrens Museum Inc — 26% of income from government
- Chesapeake Arts Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Ballet Theatre of Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
- London Town Foundation — 6% of income from government
- Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- St John's College — 2% 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.