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Carroll County Arts Council Inc

The carroll county arts council strengthens and enriches carroll county, culturally and economically, by promoting the arts, arts education, and diverse cultural expression.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% 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$232kHealth$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $12,800, the rows itemized in this filing. The $77,958 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $65,158 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.
$6,700
Median grant
1
States reached
$926k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SMALL TOWN STARS THEATRE COMPANY$6,700
ENCORE COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION$6,100
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 4%Common Ground on the Hill: $11k → 6%Common Ground on the Hill: $9k → 6%COMMON GROUND ON THE HILL: $9k → 6%COMMON GROUND ON THE HILL: $9k → 6%Barrier-Free: $18k → 6%Common Ground on the Hill: $9k → 6%BARRIER-FREE INC: $11k → 6%COMMON GROUND ON THE HILL: $8k → 6%Opus Community Music School: $11k → 6%Childrens Chorus of Carroll: $7k → 6%OPUS COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $10k → 6%CARROLL COUNTY CHILDRENS CHORUS: $7k → 6%Opus Community Music School: $9k → 6%Childrens Chorus of Carroll: $7k → 6%Opus Community Music School: $9k → 6%CARROLL COUNTY CHILDRENS CHORUS: $7k → 6%OPUS COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $7k → 6%COMMON GROUND ON THE HILL: $6k → 6%Opus Community Music School: $7k → 6%Childrens Chorus of Carroll: $6k → 6%DOWNTOWN SYKESVILLE CONNECTION: $6k → 6%CARROLL COUNTY CHILDREN'S CHORUS: $5k → 6%OPUS COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $6k → 6%Encore Community Music Assoc: $8k → 6%Encore Community Music Assoc: $7k → 6%ENCORE COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $6k → 6%ENCORE COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $6k → 6%Encore Community Music Assoc: $6k → 6%ENCORE COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOC: $6k → 6%Encore Community Music Assoc: $6k → 6%SMALL TOWN STARS THEATRE COMPANY: $7k → 6%SMALL TOWN STARS THEATRE COMPANY: $7k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$245k · 6 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$245k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+109%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 & CultureEducationOther
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

  • CG
    COMMON GROUND ON THE HILL LTD
    7× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +8%
  • OC
    OPUS COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $59k · revenue +43%
  • EC
    ENCORE COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $44k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • DS
    DOWNTOWN SYKESVILLE CONNECTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +109%
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
04the grantee network

7 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMON GROUND ON THE HILL LTD: $59,807 · Arts & CultureCOMMON GROUND ON THE HILL LTDOPUS COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $58,615 · Arts & CultureOPUS COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INCCHILDERNS CHORUS OF CARROLL COUNTY INC: $39,563 · Arts & CultureCHILDERNS CHORUS OF CARROLL COUNTY INCBARRIER-FREE INC: $28,900 · Arts & CultureBARRIER-FREE INCSMALL TOWN STARS THEATRE COMPANY: $13,800 · Arts & CultureSMALL TOWN STARS THEATRE COMPANYENCORE COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $43,833 · EducationENCORE COMMUNITY MU…DOWNTOWN SYKESVILLE CONNECTION INC: $5,725 · Other
Arts & Culture$200,685Education$43,833Other$5,725

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMON GROUND ON THE HILL LTD: $59,807 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetOPUS COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $58,615 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetENCORE COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $43,833 over 7y, 16% of budgetCHILDERNS CHORUS OF CARROLL COUNTY INC: $39,563 over 6y, 12% of budgetBARRIER-FREE INC: $28,900 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetSMALL TOWN STARS THEATRE COMPANY: $13,800 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetDOWNTOWN SYKESVILLE CONNECTION INC: $5,725 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 7 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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