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Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission Inc

The downtown columbia arts and culture commission is a not-for-profit community organization dedicated to growing arts, culture and community in merriweather post pavilion and throughout downtown columbia. As owners of merriweather post pavilion, we work to enhance this cultural centerpiece and the majestic woodland park that surrounds…

$40k
Granted FY2017
6
Grants FY2017
5
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$10,000
States reached, FY2017
1
Total assets, FY2017
$52M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Columbia Center For Theatrical Arts Inc$15,00013%
Columbia 50th Birthday Celebration$10,0001n/a
Columbia Orchestra of Howard County Inc$5,00012%
Howard County Chinese School$5,0001n/a
Columbia Festival Inc$5,0001n/a

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.

The Community Foundat…
The Community Foundation of Howard County IncMD13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission Inc

How much does Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission Inc give?
Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission Inc reported 6 grants totaling $40,000 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (88%), Education (13%).
Who are Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Columbia Center For Theatrical Arts Inc ($15k), Columbia 50th Birthday Celebration ($10k), Columbia Orchestra of Howard County Inc ($5k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Howard County Inc.
Where is Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission Inc based?
Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission Inc is based in MD.

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 5 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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