· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $329k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $171k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA CENTER FOR THEATRICAL ARTS | $60,000 |
| COLUMBIA FESTIVAL | $55,650 |
| COLUMBIA ORCHESTRA | $55,500 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC MARYLAND | $43,251 |
| KINETICS DANCE THEATRE | $41,250 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $34,160 |
| COLUMBIA PRO CANTARE LTD | $33,311 |
| MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC | $30,107 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART | $22,000 |
| MARYLAND SCIENCE CENTER | $21,515 |
| CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES | $20,529 |
| WALTERS ART MUSEUM | $17,735 |
| PORT DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $15,561 |
| HOWARD COUNTY POETRY & LIT SOCIETY | $14,800 |
| NATIONAL AQUARIUM IN BALTIMORE | $12,736 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCColumbia Center For Theatrical Arts Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $564k · revenue +7%
- CFCOLUMBIA FESTIVAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $549k · revenue +25%
- COCOLUMBIA ORCHESTRA OF HOWARD COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $458k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- HCHOWARD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMone grant, 2021 · $24k
- RBRed Branch Theatre Incone grant, 2017 · $9k
- CPCULTURA PLENERA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue ×14 · 83% of their budget
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.
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.
Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…
The mission of the baltimore chamber orchestra is to move, inspire, and provide educational opportunities to baltimore's community through world-class performances.
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…
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…
Opera baltimore creates a thrilling, meaningful shared experience between our audience and our artists. our streamlined format focuses on the primary element of opera: the unamplified human voice. featuring top flight professional opera…
Shriver hall concert series's mission is to enrich the baltimore community through outstanding chamber music and recital experiences.
To enrich and uplift our communities by advancing the arts, artists, and arts organizations for the benefit of all.
The society was created to support a chorus, which performs public concerts of choral & orchestra music. the mission is to build a stronger, more connected, more inspired community by celebrating the joy of choral music through exceptional…
To provide innovative management of the silver spring black box theatre to both resident companies and other artists and organizations as the rental calendar allows
To promote the interest in and enjoyment of dance arts by providing dancers an opportunity to study and perform; by providing choreographers an outlet for creative expression and training; by providing quality entertainment and education…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Columbia Center For Theatrical Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA ORCHESTRA OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds KINETICS DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA PRO CANTARE LTD ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds WALTERS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY POETRY & LITERARY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Howard County Chinese School Inc ↗
- Who funds SILHOUETTE STAGES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWORKS OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANNEQART ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER GROWTH INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY SUMMER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOSSOMS OF HOPE THE HOWARD COUNTY CHER ↗
- Who funds Red Branch Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds CULTURA PLENERA INC ↗
- Who funds EC250 INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Howard County Arts Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard County Arts Council. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
- Hopeworks of Howard County Inc: 29% of income from government
- Columbia Festival Inc: 22% of income from government
- Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: 16% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences: 9% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc: 7% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc: 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc: 3% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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