· Public charity
Talbot County Arts Council Inc
Allocate government funds to art programs in talbot county, md and make sub-grants to eligible and deserving arts programs of non-profit and government-related organizations and schools.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $110,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $162,763 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,263 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 $10k11 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACADEMY ART MUSEUM INC | $19,500 |
| THE AVALON FOUNDATION INC | $12,500 |
| OXFORD COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $9,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE MUSIC | $9,000 |
| ALLEGRO ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| EASTON CHORAL ARTS | $7,500 |
| CARPE DIEM ARTS | $7,000 |
| ST MICHAELS ART LEAGUE | $7,000 |
| BUILDING AFRICAN AMERICAN MINDS | $7,000 |
| CRASHBOX THEATRE | $6,500 |
| BAY HUNDRED SENIOR CENTER | $6,000 |
| MID-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC | $6,000 |
| THE FACTORY | $5,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- AFAVALON FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +20%
- CCCHESAPEAKE CHAMBER MUSIC INC T/A CHESAPEAKE MUSIC4× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +21%
- MAMID ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INCgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $6k · revenue +64%
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.
The mission of maryland opera, inc is (1) the promotion, production and performance in a variety of venues, of live opera experiences to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, (11) the creation and continuation of opera education and…
Columbia Orchestra's mission is to foster lifelong appreciation of, enthusiasm for, and participation in music.
The society was created to support a chorus, which performs public concerts of choral & orchestra music. the mission is to build a stronger, more connected, more inspired community by celebrating the joy of choral music through exceptional…
Arts, Culture, Education
To stage the finest professional opera productions in Southeastern New England. To excite and build audiences for the enjoyment of a grand art form. To offer educational programs and creative community outreach events that expand the opera…
The mission of the annapolis opera company is to be a cultural touchstone for the community, which delights audiences with musical storytelling engages new audiences with diverse programming that inspires curiosity for opera and attracts…
Opera baltimore creates a thrilling, meaningful shared experience between our audience and our artists. our streamlined format focuses on the primary element of opera: the unamplified human voice. featuring top flight professional opera…
To nuture a life-long love of music through imaginative and inspiring experiences for the listeners of today and tomorrow.
The delaware symphony orchestra is dedicated to enriching lives through inspiring musical experiences.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
Promotion and education for classical music arts.
Music education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Academy Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Building African American Minds Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 14 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
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 AVALON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHAMBER MUSIC INC T/A CHESAPEAKE MUSIC ↗
- Who funds OXFORD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Allegro Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds MID ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CARPE DIEM ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds EASTON CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EASTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds BUILDING AFRICAN AMERICAN MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Dock Street Foundation · The Llandaff Family Trust · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Van Strum Foundation 8833023 · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Ryan-Richtsmeier Charitable Foundation Inc · Richard J and Ellen G Bodorff Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rosenfeld Rumford Steckler Family 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 Talbot County Arts 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.
- Building African American Minds Inc — 12% of income from government
- Avalon Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Chesapeake Chamber Music Inc T/a Chesapeake Music — 2% 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.