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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.
$284k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants
1
Communities
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0171% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.
Arts & Culture$115kEducation$46kCommunity Improvement$19kOther$73k
02FY2023 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- COMMUNITY ARTS INC$15,000
- MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE$13,500
- DELAPLAINE VISUAL ARTS CENTER$13,500
- WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS$13,500
- ACADEMY FOR THE FINE ARTS$10,000
- FREDERICK CHILDREN'S CHORUS$10,000
- FREDERICK BOOK ARTS CENTER$10,000
- ENDANGERED SPECIES THEATRE PROJECT$10,000
- HOOD COLLEGE$10,000
- FCC FOUNDATION INC$10,000
02The need
03
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 7%. 10% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$164k · 6 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
1
Total granted
$164k
$10k
Still filing today
100%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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 ARTS5× · 2018–2023 · $43k · revenue +3%
- MEMARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE4× · 2018–2023 · $36k · revenue +26%
- FCFREDERICK CHILDREN'S CHORUS5× · 2018–2023 · $35k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- LNLA NAPOULE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Maryland Lyric Opera
Arts & Culture
2
The Frederick Chorale Inc
Provide the residents of Frederick County Maryland and surrounding communities with high quality choral music and entertainment.
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3
Franklin Performing Arts Company Inc
Fpac is dedicated to the promotion and encouragement of performing arts, with a commitment to youth development. fpac presents quality performances while offering opportunities for
Arts & Culture
4
Artslive
Arts & Culture
5
Franklin Light Opera
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6
Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts
To promote the preservation, interpretation and cultural enrichment of the cape may region for its residents and vistors.
Arts & Culture
7
Germantown Performing Arts Center
To foster and promote theatrical and musical performances to the community.
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8
Franklin Southampton Community Concerts Association
Community Concerts - Musical Enrichment
Arts & Culture
9
Beck Center for the Arts
To inspire, enrich, and transform lives through dynamic arts experiences.
Arts & Culture
10
Marcus Center for the Performing
Provide the setting for outstanding cultural experiences in the performing arts.
Arts & Culture
11
Seattle Opera
To thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera
Arts & Culture
12
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing
The john f. kennedy center for the performing arts (kennedy center) serves as both a presidential memorial and the nation's center for the performing arts.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Weinberg Center for the Arts 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.
04the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$114,550Other$72,500Education$46,000Community Improvement$19,213
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 ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK CHILDREN'S CHORUS ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK REGIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ENDANGERED SPECIES THEATRE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK BOOK ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOOD COLLEGE ↗
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.
Ausherman Family TrustMD20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Ausherman Family Trust · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Ausherman Family Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Community Foundation of Frederick · 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 organisation 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.
2025
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FREDERICK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 522041757 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on FREDERICK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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