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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 FY2024(still arriving)
95
Itemized grants FY2024
49
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$950k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 108
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Maryland Humanities Council Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving93$930k34%
FY202349$490k31%
FY202197$1.0M45%
FY2020108$632k90%
FY201914$138k57%
FY201812$105k83%
FY201710$84kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 216 grantees
All grantees of Maryland Humanities Council Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Docs in Progress Inc$75,15067%
Fund for Educational Excellence Inc$55,15050%
Fusion Partnership Inc$50,30040%
Global Z Recording Project$45,1504n/a
CityLit Project Inc$45,150415%
Catoctin Furnace Historical Society Inc$45,15044%
Muse 360 Incorporated$45,150514%
The African American Resources-Cultural and Heritage Society Inc$45,14846%
Evergreen Heritage Center Foundatio$43,15053%
Lost Towns Project Inc$40,000425%
Maryland Women's Heritage Center & Museum Inc$35,150424%
Chesapeake Childrens Museum Inc$35,15046%
Allegany Museum Inc$35,15043%
Gar Post 25 Inc$35,150418%
Delmarva Discovery Center & Museum Inc$35,15044%
Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts$35,15035%
Baltimore County Historical Society Inc$35,150414%
Farm Heritage Conservancy$35,1504n/a
Hosanna Community House Inc$35,150416%
Garrett Lakes Arts Festival Inc$33,65046%
Dorchester County Historical Society Inc$30,000315%
Historic Sotterley Inc$30,00031%
Camp Ritchie Museum Inc$30,000313%
Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute & Cultural Center$30,00038%
Beach to Bay Heritage Area Inc$30,00036%
National Museum of Language Inc$30,0003n/a
Groove City Black Heritage & Culture Group Inc$30,000310%
Frostburg First - A Maryland Main St Community Inc$30,00035%
Friends of the St Clement's Island Piney Point Museums Inc$30,000340%
Sugarland Ethno-History Project Inc$29,8902n/a
National Capital Radio and Television Museum$25,15039%
The Frostburg Museum Assn Inc$25,150317%
Life Journeys Writers Club Inc$25,1503n/a
Howard County Historical Society Inc$25,15034%
Union Mills Homestead Foundation Inc$25,15035%
Maryland Lynching Memorial Project Inc$25,15037%
Galesville Community Center Organization Inc$25,1503n/a
Maryland Veterans Memorial Museum Inc at Charles County$25,150314%
Friends of the President Street Station Inc$25,1503n/a
The Star Spangled Banner Flag House Association Inc$25,15037%
The Bayside History Museum Inc$25,150388%
Chesapeake Film Festival Inc$25,15039%
Raymond Banks a Way With Words Foundation Corporation$25,150384%
Strong City Baltimore Inc$21,15030%
University of Maryland College Park$20,1442n/a
Moving History Inc$20,00026%
Downtown Sykesville Connection Inc$20,00024%
Sisterhood Agenda Inc$20,0002n/a
Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area Inc$20,00023%
Kennard Alumni Association Larrie S Jones Cultural$20,00029%
Eleven 21 Inc$20,00022%
Captain Avery Museum Inc$20,00027%
Bold Beautiful Brilliant Girls Youth Empowerment Group$20,000212%
Somerset County Historical Society$20,000215%
Bethesda Historical Society Inc$20,0002n/a
Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc$20,00029%
Minarys Dream Alliance Inc$20,00021%
Havre de Grace Colored School Museum and Cultural Center Inc$20,00027%
Educarte Incorporated$20,000213%
The Historical Society of Carroll County Maryland Inc$20,00022%
Emmanuel Episcopal Church$20,0002n/a
Berlin Heritage Foundation Inc$20,00026%
Sankofa Childrens Museum of African Cultures Inc$20,000225%
The Civic Circle Inc$20,000210%
Historical Society of Cecil County Inc$20,000224%
Furnace Town Foundation Inc$20,00024%
From The Heart Productions$19,65020%
Center Stage Associates Inc$18,90020%
Wide Angle Youth Media Inc$17,01521%
Havre de Grace Maritime Museum Inc$15,15025%
Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archi$15,1502n/a
Eastern Shore Heritage Inc$15,150212%
Washington County Historical Society Inc$15,15023%
Crisfield Heritage Foundation Inc$15,150213%
Writing Hearts Inc$15,1502n/a
Afro Charities Inc$15,150210%
POE BALTIMORE INC co Hurst R Hessey$15,15025%
The Friends of Concord Point Lighthouse Inc$15,150210%
Peerless Rockville Historic Preservation Ltd$15,15024%
Brunswick-Potomac Foundation Inc$15,150214%
Susquehanna Museum of Havre de Grace Inc$15,15028%
Queen Annes County Arts Council$15,15025%
Garrett County Historical Society Inc$15,15029%
Frederick County Landmarks Foundation Inc$15,150214%
Baltimore County Historical Trust$15,150232%
Friends of the Julia a Purnell Museum Inc$15,1502n/a
Baltimore Architecture Foundation Inc$15,15027%
Society for the Restoration of Port Tobacco Inc$15,1502n/a
Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum Inc$15,150221%
Neighborhood Creative Arts Center$15,1502n/a
Todds Inheritance Historic Site Inc$15,150217%
Friends of Jerusalem Mill Inc$15,15028%
Historical Society Harford Cou$15,15026%
Prince George African American Museum & Cultural Center PGAAMCC$15,1502n/a
Richardson Maritime Museum Incorporated$15,15025%
Laurel Historical Society Inc$15,15027%
Doleman Black Heritage Museum$15,150221%
St Mary's College of Maryland Foundation Inc$15,00020%
The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc$14,64811%
Accokeek Foundation Inc$14,00021%
Banneker Douglas Museum Foundation Inc$13,150119%
James Agee Film Project$10,8702n/a
Historic Takoma Inc$10,00018%
National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Maryland$10,00013%
Mountain Lake Park Historical Assoc$10,00014%
Friends of Jefferson Patterson Park$10,0001n/a
Womens Civic League of North East$10,0001n/a
Harmers Town Art Center Inc$10,00012%
The League of Korean Americans USA Inc$10,000120%
Katipunan Inc$10,000144%
St Marys County Historical Society Inc$10,00019%
Unified Committee for Afro-American Contributions of St Mary's County Inc$10,000118%
Menare Foundation Inc$10,000112%
Marylands Four Centuries Project$10,0001n/a
Historical Society of Kent Co Md$10,00013%
World Arts Focus$10,00010%
The Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance Inc$10,00016%
Boonsboro Historical Society Inc$10,0001n/a
Cumberland Summer Theatre Inc$10,00013%
Chinese American Parent Association of Howard County Corp$10,000114%
Indian Cultural Association of Howard County Inc$10,00017%
Urban Rural Action$10,00011%
Friends of Rising Sun Inn Inc$10,0001n/a
Prince Georges County Historical Society Inc$10,0001n/a
Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway Inc$10,00015%
Bay Journal Media Inc$10,0001n/a
St Michaels Museum at St Marys Square Inc$10,000118%
Talbot Historical Society Inc$10,00014%
Adkins Arboretum Ltd$10,00011%
Grasonville Community Center Inc$10,000122%
Oxford Museum$10,0001n/a
Maryland Foreign Language Association$10,0001n/a
Historic Hampton Incorporated$10,00016%
Komite Ayiti$10,0001n/a
City Youth Matrix$10,00014%
Friends of Tolsons Chapel$10,0001n/a
The Chevy Chase Historical Society Ltd$10,00019%
Maryland Museums Association Inc$10,000196%
Anacostia Trails Heritage Area Inc$10,00013%
Friends of 612-614 S Wolfe Street Inc$10,0001n/a
Touchstones Discussion Project Inc$10,00012%
Historical Society of Charles County Inc$10,0001n/a
The Producers Club of Md Inc$10,00010%
Baltimore Association of Nepalese in America Inc$10,00015%
Makeup Museum Inc$10,0001n/a
The Giving Square Inc$10,00014%
Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation Inc$10,00014%
African American Heritage Society of Charles County Inc$10,0001n/a
The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum$10,00012%
Fenix Youth Project Inc$10,0001n/a
Neighborspace of Baltimore County Inc$10,00012%
Cultura Plenera Inc$10,000126%
Fuel Incorporated$10,000127%
Yellow Arrow Publishing Co$10,0001n/a
Hyattsville Community Development Corporation$10,0001n/a
Alpha Genesis Community Development Corporation$10,00011%
Friends of Maxwell Hall Inc$10,0001n/a
Greenmount Senior Center Inc$10,00018%
Women Solve$10,0001n/a
Harrisville Malone Cemetery Maintenance Fund Inc$10,0001n/a
Tilghman Watermen's Museum Inc$10,00014%
Wor-Wic Community College Inc$10,0001n/a
Northeast Towson Improvement Association Incorporated$10,0001n/a
Baltimore Heritage Incorporated$10,00012%
Civic Works Inc$10,00010%
Korean Culture & Art of Maryland Inc$10,000112%
Warren Historic Site Committee Inc$10,0001n/a
United Covenant Union Inc$9,5921n/a
Pride of Baltimore Inc$9,50011%
Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art Salisbury University$9,3801n/a
The Ward Foundation Inc$9,10011%
Live Garra Theatre Inc$8,5001n/a
Main Street Connect Inc$8,47010%
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska$8,3991n/a
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts$8,25010%
Stone Soup Productions Inc$8,00017%
Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc$8,00011%
Olney Theatre Corporation Inc$8,00010%
Imagination Stage Inc$8,00010%
Medstar Health Inc$7,75010%
Maryland Historical Society Inc$7,60010%
Rackliffe House Trust Inc$5,15017%
Sound Theory Urban Development Youth Outreach$5,1501n/a
Bach Concert Series Inc$5,15013%
Maryland Vietnamese Mutual Association$5,15015%
Cambridge Main Street Inc$5,15012%
Steppingstone Museum Association Inc$5,15015%
Mtm Foundation Inc$5,1501n/a
Port Deposit Heritage Corporation$5,1501n/a
Crisfield and Smith Island Cultural Alliance Inc$5,1501n/a
Severn Cross Roads Foundation Inc$5,150111%
Southern Maryland Community Resources Inc$5,15017%
Caroline County Council of Arts Inc$5,15013%
The 13th Man Inc$5,1501n/a
Federalsburg Historical Societyinc$5,15018%
American Institute of Architects Inc$5,15018%
Tri Community Mediation Inc$5,15012%
Calvert County Historical Soc Inc$5,15019%
Beloved Community Services Corporation$5,15011%
The Society for the Preservation of Federal Hill and Fell's Point Inc$5,15013%
Hagerstown Aviation Museum Inc$5,15012%
Seaaffinity Inc$5,1501n/a
Oxford Museum Inc$5,1501n/a
The Morgan State University Foundation Inc$5,15010%
Oxford Community Center Inc$5,15011%
Global Health and Education Projects Inc$5,15018%
Heritage Tourism Alliance of Montgomery County Inc$5,15012%
Educare Resource Center Inc$5,15013%
Ally Theatre Company Inc$5,1501n/a
Bnai Israel Congregation of Baltimore Inc$5,1501n/a
Character Counts Mid Shore Inc$5,1501n/a
Cambridge Community Radio Inc$5,15017%
Dream Works CDC Inc$5,1501n/a
Sharpsburg Historical Society Inc$5,1501n/a
Fire Museum of Maryland Inc$5,15011%
People for Change Coalition Inc$5,15013%

Where it is load-bearing

Maryland Humanities Council Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 158 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCityLit Project Inc: $45,150 over 4y, 15% of budgetCatoctin Furnace Historical Society Inc: $45,150 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetMuse 360 Incorporated: $45,150 over 5y, 14% 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 budgetMaryland Women's Heritage Center & Museum Inc: $35,150 over 4y, 24% of budgetChesapeake Childrens Museum Inc: $35,150 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetAllegany Museum Inc: $35,150 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetGar Post 25 Inc: $35,150 over 4y, 18% of budgetDelmarva Discovery Center & Museum Inc: $35,150 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetCoalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts: $35,150 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetBaltimore County Historical Society Inc: $35,150 over 4y, 14% of budgetHosanna Community House Inc: $35,150 over 4y, 16% of budgetGarrett Lakes Arts Festival Inc: $33,650 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetDorchester County Historical Society Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetHistoric Sotterley Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCamp Ritchie Museum Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetEubie Blake National Jazz Institute & Cultural Center: $30,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetBeach to Bay Heritage Area Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetGroove City Black Heritage & Culture Group Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 10.0% 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 budgetNational Capital Radio and Television Museum: $25,150 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetThe Frostburg Museum Assn Inc: $25,150 over 3y, 17% of budgetHoward County Historical Society Inc: $25,150 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetUnion Mills Homestead Foundation Inc: $25,150 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetMaryland Lynching Memorial Project Inc: $25,150 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetMaryland Veterans Memorial Museum Inc at Charles County: $25,150 over 3y, 14% of budgetThe Star Spangled Banner Flag House Association Inc: $25,150 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetThe Bayside History Museum Inc: $25,150 over 3y, 88% of budgetChesapeake Film Festival Inc: $25,150 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetRaymond Banks a Way With Words Foundation Corporation: $25,150 over 3y, 84% of budgetStrong City Baltimore Inc: $21,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMoving History Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetDowntown Sykesville Connection Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetHeart of the Civil War Heritage Area Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetKennard Alumni Association Larrie S Jones Cultural: $20,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetEleven 21 Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCaptain Avery Museum Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetBold Beautiful Brilliant Girls Youth Empowerment Group: $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSomerset County Historical Society: $20,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetLaunching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetMinarys Dream Alliance Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHavre de Grace Colored School Museum and Cultural Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 158.

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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.

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

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 Maryland Humanities Council Inc

How much does Maryland Humanities Council Inc give?
Maryland Humanities Council Inc reported 95 itemized grants totaling $950,000, out of $978,940 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 108 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Maryland Humanities Council Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (80%), Education (5%), Youth Development (4%).
Who are Maryland Humanities Council Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Docs in Progress Inc ($75k), Fund for Educational Excellence Inc ($55k), Fusion Partnership Inc ($50k).
Does Maryland Humanities Council Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Maryland Humanities Council Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maryland Historical Society Inc, Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc, Baltimore Heritage Area Association Inc.
Where is Maryland Humanities Council Inc based?
Maryland Humanities Council 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 217 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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