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Maryland Humanities Council Inc

Maryland humanities creates and supports bold experiences that explore and elevate our shared stories to connect people, enhance lives, and enrich communities.

$979k
Granted FY2024still arriving
95
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$2.8MEducation$160kYouth Development$135kHuman Services$100kCommunity Improvement$100kEnvironment$60kReligion$25kCivil Rights$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 95 grants below total $950,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $978,940 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,940 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bayside History Museum$10,000
Emmanuel Episcopal Church$10,000
Eleven 21 Inc dba Epoch Dream Center$10,000
Harrisville Malone Cemetery Maintenance Fund Inc$10,000
Mountain Lake Park Historical Association$10,000
Maryland Museums Association$10,000
Historical Society of Carroll County Maryland$10,000
Fuel Incorporated$10,000
Furnace Town Foundation$10,000
Giving Square$10,000
Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance Inc (NH$10,000
Grasonville Community Center Inc$10,000
CityLit Project$10,000
Garrett County Historical Society$10,000
Mount Clare Museum House$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Eleven 21 Inc dba Epoch Dream Center: $10k → 13%ELEVEN 21 INC DBA EPOCH DREAM CENTER: $10k → 13%LAUREL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 11%LAUREL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 11%ALPHA GENESIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 15%HISTORIC FROSTBURG A MARYLAND MAIN STREET COMMUNITY INC: $10k → 18%HISTORIC FROSTBURG A MARYLAND MAIN STREET COMMUNITY INC: $10k → 18%Historic Frostburg a Maryland Main Street Communi: $10k → 18%Greenmount Senior Center: $10k → 19%THE 13TH MAN: $5k → 11%Sisterhood Agenda Inc: $10k → 11%SISTERHOOD AGENDA INC: $10k → 11%BELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORP: $5k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 100 repeat orgs$977k to everyone else

100 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
84

Total granted

$2.4M
$657k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+35%

Still filing today

82%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • DI
    DOCS IN PROGRESS INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +22%
  • FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +326%
  • M3
    MUSE 360 INCORPORATED
    5× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +260%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -19%
  • BD
    Banneker Douglas Museum Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +159%
  • WA
    WORLD ARTS FOCUSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +65%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Maryland Technology Museum Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Preservation Delaware
Arts & Culture
3
African Art Museum of Maryland

The African Art Museum of Maryland is dedicated to collecting, exhibiting and preserving, for the public, the art of Africa. The museum is further dedicated to increasing the awareness of African art and culture; while encouraging a…

Arts & Culture
4
The Maryland Military Historical Society Inc

Perpuate the deeds and accomplishments

—
5
The Watermen's Museum

To preserve and promote the role that the chesapeake bay watermen played in the shaping of our nation through a historical display of crafts and methods of their trade.

Arts & Culture
6
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Art Ctr

Operation of local history and art museum and promotion of local history and art.

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7
Carroll Museums Inc

To preserve and interpret the Carroll Mansion and Phoenix Shot Tower, two historic Baltimore landmarks, through exhibits, tours, and programs.

Arts & Culture
8
Aberdeen Room Archives and Museum Inc

The Aberdeen Historical Museum collects, records, preserves, and shares historical archives and artifacts that tell the story of the greater Aberdeen, Maryland area to awaken an interest in local history and to inspire new perspectives on…

Arts & Culture
9
Friends of Fort Towson Inc
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10
WesternMD Railway Historical Society

To encourage the collection & preservation of historical material associated with the Western MD Railway and American Railway system.

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11
Historical Society of Middletown & Wallkill
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12
Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society

To preserve the diverse history of cape may county for the education, enlightment and pleasure of present and future generations.

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Women Solve. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEducational and Community F…Early Childhood Care CentersIndependent SchoolsHindu and Buddhist TemplesYouth Mentoring and Develop…Developmental Disabilities …Hospital Support Organizati…Homeless Services & Poverty…Evangelical Churches and Mi…Community Arts CentersFamily Philanthropic Founda…Maryland Heritage & Conserv…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr16%15%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%4%<5yr16%14%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%6/217
the rest of the field
15%
5,596/38,124

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

174 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 174 of the 217 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
63
Early backer (in before they grew)
167/174
Grantees still filing
108/174
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DOCS IN PROGRESS INC — $75,150 · Arts & Culture+77 more — $1,361,361 · Arts & Culture+77 more+86 more — $1,364,995 · Other+86 moreFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $55,150 · EducationKENNARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION LARRIE S JONES CULTURAL — $20,000 · EducationLaunching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc — $20,000 · EducationMINARYS DREAM ALLIANCE INC — $20,000 · EducationST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · EducationTouchstones Discussion Project Inc — $10,000 · EducationCIVIC WORKS INC — $10,000 · EducationCHINESE AMERICAN PARENT ASSOCIATION OF HOWARD COUNTY CORP — $10,000 · EducationWOMEN SOLVE — $10,000 · EducationCITY YOUTH MATRIX — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,150 · EducationFrostburg First - A Maryland Main St Community Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesSisterhood Agenda Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesELEVEN 21 INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesLAUREL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $15,150 · Human ServicesGREENMOUNT SENIOR CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesALPHA GENESIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE 13TH MAN INC — $5,150 · Human ServicesBELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION — $5,150 · Human ServicesFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $50,300 · Community ImprovementSOCIETY FOR THE RESTORATION OF PORT TOBACCO INC — $15,150 · Community ImprovementTHE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementUrban Rural Action — $10,000 · Community ImprovementHYATTSVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementANACOSTIA TRAILS HERITAGE AREA INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCAMBRIDGE MAIN STREET INC — $5,150 · Community ImprovementEVERGREEN HERITAGE CENTER FOUNDATIO — $43,150 · EnvironmentEASTERN SHORE HERITAGE INC — $15,150 · EnvironmentLOWER SUSQUEHANNA HERITAGE GREENWAY INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentNEIGHBORSPACE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentADKINS ARBORETUM LTD — $10,000 · EnvironmentBAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentMID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING SQUARE INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNIFIED COMMITTEE FOR AFRO-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS OF ST MARY'S COUNTY INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyPEOPLE FOR CHANGE COALITION INC — $5,150 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$1,436,511Other$1,364,995Education$185,300Human Services$115,450Community Improvement$110,600Environment$98,300Philanthropy$65,150

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDOCS IN PROGRESS INC — $75,150 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $55,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $50,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSE 360 INCORPORATED — $45,150 over 5y, 14% of budgetCityLit Project Inc — $45,150 over 4y, 15% of budgetCATOCTIN FURNACE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $45,150 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN RESOURCES-CULTURAL AND HERITAGE SOCIETY INC — $45,148 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetEVERGREEN HERITAGE CENTER FOUNDATIO — $43,150 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetLost Towns Project Inc — $40,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetMID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCoalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts — $35,150 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC — $35,150 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetMaryland Women's Heritage Center & Museum Inc — $35,150 over 4y, 24% of budgetGAR POST 25 INC — $35,150 over 4y, 18% of budgetDELMARVA DISCOVERY CENTER & MUSEUM INC — $35,150 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetHOSANNA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC — $35,150 over 4y, 16% of budgetALLEGANY MUSEUM INC — $35,150 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetBaltimore County Historical Society Inc — $35,150 over 4y, 14% of budgetGARRETT LAKES ARTS FESTIVAL INC — $33,650 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetEUBIE BLAKE NATIONAL JAZZ INSTITUTE & CULTURAL CENTER — $30,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetGROOVE CITY BLACK HERITAGE & CULTURE GROUP INC — $30,000 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetHISTORIC SOTTERLEY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDORCHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetBEACH TO BAY HERITAGE AREA INC — $30,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetFrostburg First - A Maryland Main St Community Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ST CLEMENT'S ISLAND PINEY POINT MUSEUMS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetCAMP RITCHIE MUSEUM INC — $30,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetRAYMOND BANKS A WAY WITH WORDS FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $25,150 over 3y, 84% of budgetCHESAPEAKE FILM FESTIVAL INC — $25,150 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetTHE FROSTBURG MUSEUM ASSN INC — $25,150 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE BAYSIDE HISTORY MUSEUM INC — $25,150 over 3y, 88% of budgetTHE STAR SPANGLED BANNER FLAG HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $25,150 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetHOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,150 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetMARYLAND LYNCHING MEMORIAL PROJECT INC — $25,150 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetUNION MILLS HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION INC — $25,150 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetMARYLAND VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM INC AT CHARLES COUNTY — $25,150 over 3y, 14% of budgetNational Capital Radio and Television Museum — $25,150 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC — $21,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHavre de Grace Colored School Museum and Cultural Center Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetSOMERSET COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetBOLD BEAUTIFUL BRILLIANT GIRLS YOUTH EMPOWERMENT GROUP — $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetKENNARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION LARRIE S JONES CULTURAL — $20,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetFURNACE TOWN FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetEducarte Incorporated — $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetLaunching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetCAPTAIN AVERY MUSEUM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CARROLL COUNTY MARYLAND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDOWNTOWN SYKESVILLE CONNECTION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Maryland Historical S…Mid Shore Community F…Baltimore Heritage Ar…France-Merrick Founda…Community Foundation …Baltimore Community F…Delaplaine Foundation…Arts and Humanities C…The William G Baker J…The United Way of Cen…T Rowe Price Foundati…Nora Roberts Foundati…
Maryland Historical Society IncMD65.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maryland Historical Society Inc · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Baltimore Heritage Area Association Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer · The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Maryland Humanities Council Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 590%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • World Arts Focus — 100% of income from government
  • Harmers Town Art Center Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Camp Ritchie Museum Inc — 100% of income from government
  • The Bayside History Museum Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Caroline County Council of Arts Inc — 80% of income from government
  • Baltimore Heritage Incorporated — 63% of income from government
  • Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Banneker Douglas Museum Foundation Inc — 56% of income from government
  • Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation Inc — 52% of income from government
  • The African American Resources-Cultural and Heritage Society Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Accokeek Foundation Inc — 44% of income from government
  • Pride of Baltimore Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Historic Sotterley Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Tri Community Mediation Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Childrens Museum Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Medstar Health Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Baltimore Architecture Foundation Inc — 17% of income from government
  • CityLit Project Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Laurel Historical Society Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Imagination Stage Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
  • The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc — 8% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Producers Club of Md Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts — 6% of income from government
  • Evergreen Heritage Center Foundatio — 6% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Beloved Community Services Corporation — 3% of income from government
  • Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Washington County Museum of Fine Arts — 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Olney Theatre Corporation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
59get no government money at all
66report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
9rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 217 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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