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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.

$919k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$6.2MEducation$101kPhilanthropy$45k
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $812,773, the rows itemized in this filing. The $919,022 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $106,249 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 $10k10 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $527k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $215k
$17,600
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LONDON TOWN FOUNDATION INC$33,500
ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM 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
02The need
03

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GREATER ANNAPOLIS BALLET: $23k → 6%GREATER ANNAPOLIS BALLET: $9k → 6%ANNAPOLIS MUSICIANS FUND FOR MUSICIANS INC: $5k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 45 repeat orgs$224k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
17

Total granted

$6.1M
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+13%

Still filing today

80%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationEmploymentOther
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

  • MH
    MARYLAND HALL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $609k · revenue +4%
  • AS
    ANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $367k · revenue +293%
  • AO
    ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $364k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • CT
    CHILDRENS THEATRE OF ANNAPOLIS
    one grant, 2024 · $62k
  • EF
    EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL
    one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +16%
  • SC
    South County Center for the Arts
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue -33%
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.

1
Maryland Lyric Opera
Arts & Culture
2
Chesapeake Choral Arts Society Inc

Arts, Culture, Education

Arts & Culture
3
Baltimore Theatre Project

Artistic Programs

Arts & Culture
4
The Colonial Theatre School Inc

Produce live professional theater through Shakespeare Festival and educational programs for both children and adults.

Arts & Culture
5
Maryland Opera Inc

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…

Philanthropy
6
Harborside Center for the Arts Inc
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7
Chesapeake Orchestra Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Arlington Music Hall

To promote and produce Public Art for the enjoyment of the community and for the economic benefit of the community.

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
District of Columbia Arts Center

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Le Mondo

To promote theater performances in baltimore city

Arts & Culture
12
4615 Theater Company Inc

Our mission is offer theatrical productions.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 65 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/49
Grantees still filing
31/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARYLAND HALL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS INC: $609,050 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND HALL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS INCANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $367,275 · Arts & CultureANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY: $363,600 · Arts & CultureANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANYANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL: $355,550 · Arts & CultureANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVALCHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER INC: $340,350 · Arts & CultureCHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER INCBallet Theatre of Maryland Inc: $289,850 · Arts & CultureBallet Theatre of Maryland IncTHE ANNAPOLIS CHORALE INC: $266,700 · Arts & CultureTHE ANNAPOLIS CHORALE INCCAPTAIN AVERY MUSEUM INC: $186,250 · Arts & CultureCOMPASS ROSE THEATER INC: $163,750 · Arts & CultureCLASSIC THEATRE OF MARYLAND INC: $154,400 · Arts & Culture+19 more: $935,988 · Arts & Culture+19 moreCHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER: $354,000 · OtherCHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTERANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $248,900 · OtherANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INCMARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART INC: $223,950 · OtherMARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART INCLONDON TOWN FOUNDATION: $189,500 · OtherLONDON TOWN FOUNDATIONBanneker Douglas Museum Foundation Inc: $165,900 · OtherBanneker Douglas Museum Foundation In…CHESAPEAKE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $131,500 · OtherCHESAPEAKE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAANNAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $127,000 · OtherANNAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANYANNAPOLIS SUMMER GARDEN THEATRE: $98,000 · OtherCREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION: $94,150 · OtherANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL: $75,873 · Other+19 more: $361,650 · Other+19 moreST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $109,900 · EducationEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL: $44,620 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF CANADAS NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL: $7,100 · PhilanthropyANNAPOLIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER ANNAPOLIS BALLET: $31,500 · Human ServicesAnnapolis Musicians Fund for Musicians Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE OF MARYLAND INC: $5,500 · Employment
Arts & Culture$4,032,763Other$2,070,423Education$109,900Philanthropy$57,720Human Services$36,500Employment$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARYLAND HALL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS INC: $609,050 over 9y, 6.1% of budgetANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $367,275 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY: $363,600 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL: $355,550 over 9y, 15% of budgetCHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER INC: $340,350 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetBallet Theatre of Maryland Inc: $289,850 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetTHE ANNAPOLIS CHORALE INC: $266,700 over 9y, 16% of budgetANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $248,900 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetMARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART INC: $223,950 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetLONDON TOWN FOUNDATION: $189,500 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetCAPTAIN AVERY MUSEUM INC: $186,250 over 9y, 16% of budgetBanneker Douglas Museum Foundation Inc: $165,900 over 5y, 94% of budgetCOMPASS ROSE THEATER INC: $163,750 over 9y, 62% of budgetCLASSIC THEATRE OF MARYLAND INC: $154,400 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetHISTORIC ANNAPOLIS INC: $133,600 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCHESAPEAKE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $131,500 over 9y, 15% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $127,350 over 7y, 18% of budgetST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $109,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANNAPOLIS SUMMER GARDEN THEATRE: $98,000 over 9y, 19% of budgetCREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION: $94,150 over 7y, 15% of budgetCHILDREN'S THEATRE OF ANNAPOLIS INC: $82,725 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetARTS LAB OF SOUTH COUNTY INC: $69,750 over 5y, 31% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOR AFRICAN CULTURES INC: $65,198 over 4y, 59% of budgetHAMMOND-HARWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $62,975 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetTHE ANGELWING PROJECT INC: $57,050 over 6y, 45% of budgetNaptown Philharmonic Orchestra: $50,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetAll Children's Chorus of Annapolis: $49,950 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetTHE TALENT MACHINE COMPANY INC: $45,500 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL: $44,620 over 1y, 13% of budgetCapital City Cultural Arts District Annapolis Arts District: $42,240 over 4y, 23% of budgetMaryland Cultural and Conference Center Inc (formerly MD Theatre for the Perfor: $39,650 over 3y, 20% of budgetFIDDLE PUPPET DANCERS INC: $35,800 over 4y, 27% of budgetANNAPOLIS ARTS ALLIANCE: $33,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetGREATER ANNAPOLIS BALLET: $31,500 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetColonial Players Inc: $31,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetFUTURE HISTORY NOW INC: $29,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetAA CO TRUST FOR PRESERVATION INC: $21,700 over 4y, 41% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $21,600 over 2y, 25% of budgetENCORE CREATIVITY CORPORATION: $19,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSouth County Center for the Arts: $9,350 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFriends of Hancocks Resolution Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetWESTERN STATES ARTS FEDERATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEKI'S TAMURE POLYNESIAN ARTS GROUP: $5,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetPROVIDENCE OF MARYLAND INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnnapolis Musicians Fund for Musicians Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budget
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Anne Arundel Economic…The Helena Foundation…The Jm Kaplan Fund IncNorman J Fisher and D…Arundel Community Dev…The Mhe Foundation IncWilliam J and Dorothy…Schuh Family Foundati…Weir FoundationMaryland Humanities C…American Gift Fund
Community Foundation of Anne Arundel CoMD55.7× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Council of Anne Arundel County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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