Maryland · Public charity
Howard County Arts Council
To enrich and uplift our communities by advancing the arts, artists, and arts organizations for the benefit of all.
- $756k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $603k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Howard County Arts Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $603k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $600k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $592k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $555k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $583k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $542k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $478k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $493k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia Center For Theatrical Arts Inc | $564,240 | 9 | 18% |
| Columbia Festival Inc | $549,191 | 9 | 22% |
| Columbia Orchestra of Howard County Inc | $458,303 | 9 | 23% |
| Chamber Music Maryland Inc | $374,195 | 9 | 18% |
| Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc | $316,586 | 9 | 0% |
| Kinetics Dance Theatre Inc | $286,834 | 9 | 12% |
| Columbia Pro Cantare Ltd | $273,911 | 9 | 27% |
| Maryland Zoological Society Inc | $224,400 | 8 | 0% |
| Center Stage Associates Inc | $196,558 | 9 | 0% |
| Baltimore Museum of Art | $191,957 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Howard County Arts Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Howard County Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Dr Frank C Marino Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund · The Horizon Foundation of Howard County Inc · Wr Grace Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Howard County Arts Council
- How much does Howard County Arts Council give?
- Howard County Arts Council reported 33 itemized grants totaling $602,832, out of $755,931 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Howard County Arts Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (89%), Animals (7%), Science & Tech (4%).
- Who are Howard County Arts Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Columbia Center For Theatrical Arts Inc ($564k), Columbia Festival Inc ($549k), Columbia Orchestra of Howard County Inc ($458k).
- Does Howard County Arts Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Howard County Arts Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Howard County Inc, The John J Leidy Foundation Inc, T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Howard County Arts Council based?
- Howard County Arts Council is based in MD.
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