· Public charity
Mid Atlantic Arts Inc
Mid atlantic arts nurtures and funds the creation and presentation of diverse artistic expression and connects people to meaningful arts experiences within our region and beyond.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 129 grants below total $3,385,239 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,651,364 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,266,125 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k62 grants · $439k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $976k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $970k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH ARTS | $1,000,000 |
| BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC | $100,000 |
| FEDERAL VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER | $100,000 |
| THE ESSENTIAL THEATRE | $67,000 |
| MULTI-CULTURAL FESTIVAL OF WEST VIRGINIA INC | $67,000 |
| LADIES OF HIP-HOP FESTIVAL | $67,000 |
| PODIUM FOUNDATION | $67,000 |
| TEN SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS INC | $67,000 |
| WILMINGTON CHILDRENS CHORUS INC | $67,000 |
| SOLE DEFINED | $67,000 |
| MUJERES DE ISLAS INC | $67,000 |
| BARRIO ALEGRIA | $67,000 |
| CREATE IN CHINATOWN INC | $67,000 |
| IN FACT | $47,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $367k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
251 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 194 since wound down; 70 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
FRACTURED ATLAS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +71%
Bucknell University9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +45%- BOBIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC2× · 2023–2025 · $175k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- UJUNITED JAZZ FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +118% · 41% of their budget
- TITHE INSTITUTE OF MUSIC FOR CHILDREN INCone grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue -35%
- AAAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTERone grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue -4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To present and promote contemporary classical music through innovative, interdisciplinary performances; to support living composers; and to engage diverse audiences through education, collaboration, and community-based programming.…
New Dance Alliance is a performing arts nonprofit. Our mission, from the earliest days, has been to support experimental movement-based artists. In recent years, we have shifted our focus, making an explicit commitment to equity and…
Constella Arts produces performances, educational presentations and digital content, along the way changing how people perceive classical music and the performing arts.
Entertainment
Constellation is a performing arts presenter with an emphasis on forward- thinking practices, particularly in the areas of jazz, improvised, experimental, and contemporary classical music.
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
Cantata Profana, Inc. (www.cantataprofana.com) is a vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble that presents concerts of classical and chamber music ranging from the Baroque to modern eras with a unique narrative style. Our purpose is to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Works and Process Inc and the most unlike its peers is S & R Foundation. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
678 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. 678 of the 759 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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.
- Who funds South Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE PLACE ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAZZ GALLERY ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINA CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Traditional Music and Dance Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FLUSHING COUNCIL ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center ↗
- Who funds GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS ↗
- Who funds Kronos Performing Arts Association ↗
- Who funds NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HEADLONG DANCE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Project Bandaloop ↗
- Who funds Barrio Alegria Co ↗
- Who funds MULTI-CULTURAL FESTIVAL OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOLE DEFINED ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIQUE PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds SO PERCUSSION INC ↗
- Who funds JACK MUSIC INC JACK QUARTET ↗
- Who funds NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE ESSENTIAL THEATRE ↗
- Who funds U B W INC A/K/A URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · New Music USA Inc · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Map Fund Inc · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Mid Atlantic Arts 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Christina Cultural Arts Center Inc — 100% of income from government
- Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% of income from government
- Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company — 25% of income from government
- Columbia Festival Inc — 22% of income from government
- Joshua M Freeman Foundation — 20% of income from government
- Delaware Shakespeare Festival Inc — 18% of income from government
- Anikaya Akhra Inc — 18% of income from government
- Newark Arts Council — 16% of income from government
- Roomful of Teeth Vocal Arts Project — 11% of income from government
- Germantown Cultural Arts Centerinc — 10% of income from government
- Wilmington Children's Chorus — 10% of income from government
- The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc — 8% of income from government
- Grand Opera House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Emmanuel Music Inc — 5% of income from government
- Arden Club Inc — 5% of income from government
- Blue Heron Renaissance Choir Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cityfest Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- Native Roots Farm Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Double Edge Theatre Productions Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Institute of Music for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
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.