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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.

$5.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
129
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$1.0M
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$17MCommunity Improvement$303kHuman Services$194kYouth Development$156kHealth$92kFood & Nutrition$67kEducation$30kRecreation & Sports$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 129 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 129 grants below total $3,385,239, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,651,364 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,266,125 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k62 grants · $439k
  • $10k–50k53 grants · $976k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $970k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH ARTS$1,000,000
FEDERAL VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER$100,000
BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC ALLIANCE$100,000
SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC$100,000
BARRIO ALEGRIA$67,000
SOLE DEFINED$67,000
CREATE IN CHINATOWN INC$67,000
LADIES OF HIP-HOP FESTIVAL$67,000
PODIUM FOUNDATION$67,000
TEN SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS INC$67,000
MUJERES DE ISLAS INC$67,000
MULTI-CULTURAL FESTIVAL OF WEST VIRGINIA INC$67,000
WILMINGTON CHILDRENS CHORUS INC$67,000
THE ESSENTIAL THEATRE$67,000
DUKODE STUDIO$47,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MEKONG INC TOTAL: $10k → 28%KITKA INC: $13k → 10%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH TOTAL: $13k → 11%HAITI CULTURAL EXCHANGE TOTAL: $10k → 20%NATURALLY OCCURRING CULTURAL DISTRICTS NY INC TOTAL: $10k → 20%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC TOTAL: $10k → 20%ABRAHAM IN MOTION INC TOTAL: $26k → 17%ABRAHAM IN MOTION INC: $11k → 17%SEARCH AND RESTORE TOTAL: $11k → 20%GLOBALFESTINC: $8k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $15k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT TOTAL: $8k → 17%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $10k → 29%SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $100k → 19%SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $75k → 19%ACCESS VIRGINIA TOTAL: $10k → 17%CROSSROADS INCORPORATED TOTAL: $10k → 8%STEP BY STEP INC: $10k → 18%STEP BY STEP INC: $10k → 18%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 251 repeat orgs$6.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

251
433

Total granted

$11M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+7%

Still filing today

90%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +71%
  • Bucknell University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +45%
  • BO
    BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $175k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UNITED JAZZ FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +118% · 41% of their budget
  • AA
    AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue -4%
  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE OF MUSIC FOR CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue -35%
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
BlackBox Ensemble Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture
2
State of the Arts Productions
Arts & Culture
3
International Cultural Arts Network
Arts & Culture
4
New Dance Alliance Inc

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…

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5
Constella Arts

Constella Arts produces performances, educational presentations and digital content, along the way changing how people perceive classical music and the performing arts.

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6
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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7
Blue Curtain a Nj NonProfit Corporation

Entertainment

Arts & Culture
8
Constellation Performing Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
9
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
10
On the Boards

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.

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11
Foundation for Modern Opera
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12
Cantata Profana Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Works and Process Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

678 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. 678 of the 759 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.

20
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
157
Early backer (in before they grew)
662/678
Grantees still filing
399/678
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $540,352 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC+133 more: $6,911,532 · Arts & Culture+133 moreSouth Arts Inc: $1,000,000 · OtherSouth Arts IncUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $183,990 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLE…THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $128,277 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $110,100 · Other+37 more: $1,583,596 · Other+37 moreBucknell University: $189,881 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $121,652 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $98,950 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $90,500 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $70,025 · EducationPodium RVA: $67,000 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton College: $51,435 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $41,780 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $40,800 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $37,753 · EducationMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $31,816 · Education+4 more: $107,193 · EducationFEDERAL VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $175,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF GANONDAGAN INC: $69,500 · Community ImprovementMUJERES DE ISLAS INC: $67,000 · Community ImprovementARDEN CLUB INC: $43,549 · Community ImprovementSHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesAbraham In Motion Inc: $36,870 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $23,400 · Human ServicesMULTI-CULTURAL FESTIVAL OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $76,500 · Recreation & SportsCITYFEST INC: $23,287 · Recreation & SportsTidewater African Cultural Alliance: $47,000 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$7,451,884Other$3,005,963Education$948,785Community Improvement$355,049Human Services$235,270Recreation & Sports$99,787Public Benefit$47,000

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouth Arts Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $540,352 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetDANCE PLACE: $218,618 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetBucknell University: $189,881 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC: $175,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFEDERAL VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $175,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetSHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $175,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTHE JAZZ GALLERY: $163,520 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC: $152,539 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $128,277 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC: $125,582 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $121,652 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE ALLIANCE INC: $116,028 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCHRISTINA CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC: $112,361 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTHE FORUM INC: $111,725 over 9y, 19% of budgetCenter for Traditional Music and Dance Inc: $101,915 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetST JOHN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $100,075 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $98,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFLUSHING COUNCIL ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS: $96,544 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetMIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC: $92,450 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $90,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center: $86,480 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS: $85,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetKronos Performing Arts Association: $80,960 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNEWARK ARTS COUNCIL: $79,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHEADLONG DANCE THEATER INC: $79,098 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetProject Bandaloop: $78,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMULTI-CULTURAL FESTIVAL OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $76,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetSOLE DEFINED: $76,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetBarrio Alegria Co: $76,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION: $74,890 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $74,390 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetSO PERCUSSION INC: $74,130 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetJACK MUSIC INC JACK QUARTET: $73,478 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetNAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY: $72,930 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE ESSENTIAL THEATRE: $72,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetU B W INC A/K/A URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC: $71,610 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $71,460 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCARNEGIE HALL INC: $71,381 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $70,025 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $69,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS OF GANONDAGAN INC: $69,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetWIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC: $69,500 over 2y, 4.9% of budget1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC: $69,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMUJERES DE ISLAS INC: $67,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTEN SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS INC: $67,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetCREATE IN CHINATOWN INC: $67,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWILMINGTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS: $67,000 over 1y, 11% 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.

  • Who funds South Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds DANCE PLACE ↗
  • Who funds Bucknell University ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds FEDERAL VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE 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 MULTI-CULTURAL FESTIVAL OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SOLE DEFINED ↗
  • Who funds Barrio Alegria Co ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Howard Gilman Fou…New England Foundatio…New Music USA IncThe Fan Fox and Lesli…The Aaron Copland Fun…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Shubert Foundatio…The Map Fund IncThe Harkness Foundati…The Amphion Foundatio…Booth Ferris Foundati…Doris Duke Charitable…
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY119.2× affinity96 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mid Atlantic Arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mid Atlantic Arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
66report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 759 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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