· Public charity
The Frederick Arts Council Inc
The organization is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to supporting existing and developing arts organizations by providing various grants, technical assistance, scholarships, and advocacy, in the promotion of local arts, artists, and art groups in frederick county, maryland.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $6,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $308,606 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $302,106 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $6,500 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 8% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WCWEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +23%
- MEMARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE INC5× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +50%
- TFTHE FREDERICK CHILDRENS CHORUS INC6× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- CACOMMUNITY ARTS INCone grant, 2023 · $15k
- DVDELAPLAINE VISUAL ARTS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $14k
- AFACADEMY FOR THE FINE ARTSone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Community Concerts - Musical Enrichment
To plan and implement special events and activities to offer the community a shared cultural experience.
To provide superior theatrical programs for regional participation that entertain, educate, enrich and inspire.
The mission of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra is to explore and present the symphonic repertoire, both traditional and modern, for the diverse audiences of the Northern Virginia region while building the musicians and audiences of the…
The orchestra's mission is to perform fine music with highest artistic integrity for the broadest possible audience.
Offering Professional Music Concerts
The Maryland Choral Society strives to be a leading force in the advocacy and enhancement of the choral arts, to cultivate educational opportunities, to nurture intergenerational experiences, and to create musical excellence throughout…
To bring musical and dramatic performanc
In FY 2025, Washington Master Chorale presented three mainstage concerts of high quality choral music, including the premiere of a new work by Florence Price Commission Competition winner, Shavon Lloyd. In celebration of its 15th…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frederick Childrens Chorus Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hood College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK CHILDRENS CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds The Frederick Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK REGIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK BOOK ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ENDANGERED SPECIES THEATRE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HOOD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK CHORALE 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: Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Ausherman Family Foundation · Ausherman Family Trust · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc · G Frank Thomas Fdn Inc Main · William E Cross Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Frederick 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.
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.