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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 95 grants below total $950,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $978,940 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,940 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Coalition for African Americans in the Performing$10,000
NeighborSpace of Baltimore County Inc$10,000
St Michaels Museum$10,000
African-American Resources Cultural Heritage Socie$10,000
Chesapeake Film Festival$10,000
Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation$10,000
Writers in Baltimore Schools$10,000
Unified Committee for Afro-American Contributions$10,000
Historical Society of Cecil County$10,000
Bold Beautiful Brilliant Girls Youth Empowerment G$10,000
Dorchester County Historical Society$10,000
Indian Cultural Association of Howard County Inc$10,000
Camp Ritchie Museum Inc$10,000
Somerset County Historical Society$10,000
Allegany Museum$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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 Communi: $10k → 18%HISTORIC FROSTBURG A MARYLAND MAIN STREET COMMUNITY INC: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+26%
+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
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DI
    DOCS IN PROGRESS INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +15%
  • FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +326%
  • CP
    CityLit Project Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +67%

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 +197%
  • HT
    HISTORIC TAKOMA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -13%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Maryland Technology Museum Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Preservation Delaware
Arts & Culture
3
The Maryland Military Historical Society Inc

Perpuate the deeds and accomplishments

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4
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
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
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
7
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
8
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Art Ctr

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

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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
Damascus Heritage Society Inc

The primary purpose of the Damascus Heritage Society is to maintain a depository for agricultural and other historical artifacts of the Damascus, Maryland area. The museum served approximately 500 visitors in 2023.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Historical Society Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
65
Early backer (in before they grew)
167/174
Grantees still filing
110/174
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOCS IN PROGRESS INC: $75,150 · Arts & Culture+78 more: $1,366,511 · Arts & Culture+78 more+85 more: $1,364,995 · Other+85 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 · EducationCHINESE AMERICAN PARENT ASSOCIATION OF HOWARD COUNTY CORP: $10,000 · EducationCITY YOUTH MATRIX: $10,000 · EducationTouchstones Discussion Project Inc: $10,000 · EducationWOMEN SOLVE: $10,000 · EducationCIVIC WORKS INC: $10,000 · 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 ServicesALPHA GENESIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesGREENMOUNT SENIOR CENTER INC: $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 ImprovementUrban Rural Action: $10,000 · Community ImprovementANACOSTIA TRAILS HERITAGE AREA INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementHYATTSVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $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 · EnvironmentBAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentADKINS ARBORETUM LTD: $10,000 · EnvironmentNEIGHBORSPACE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentBOLD BEAUTIFUL BRILLIANT GIRLS YOUTH EMPOWERMENT GROUP: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CIVIC CIRCLE INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentFENIX YOUTH PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFuel Incorporated: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMTM FOUNDATION INC: $5,150 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$1,441,661Other$1,364,995Education$180,150Human Services$115,450Community Improvement$110,600Environment$98,300Youth Development$65,150

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetMID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budget
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.

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Maryland Humanities Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maryland Humanities Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 590%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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