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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.

$309k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
70%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$7k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$6,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,500
Organizations funded a year
3 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$635k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 70% of the organizations The Frederick Arts Council Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’23
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$7k0%
FY202310$116k70%
FY20213$18k0%
FY20205$40k40%
FY20195$38k0%
FY20185$41k0%
FY20176$47kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$267kCommunity Improvement$19kPhilanthropy$10kEducation$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of The Frederick Arts Council Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Weinberg Center for the Arts Inc$57,00071%
Maryland Ensemble Theatre Inc$46,00052%
The Frederick Childrens Chorus Inc$43,05067%
The Frederick Symphony Orchestra Inc$25,00039%
Frederick Regional Youth Orchestra Inc$21,0003n/a
Downtown Frederick Partnership Inc$19,21321%
Community Arts Inc$15,0001n/a
Frederick Book Arts Center Inc$10,00015%
Endangered Species Theatre Project$10,00018%
Hood College$10,00010%
The Frederick Chorale Inc$6,0001n/a

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Frederick Arts Council Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWeinberg Center for the Arts Inc: $57,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMaryland Ensemble Theatre Inc: $46,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetThe Frederick Childrens Chorus Inc: $43,050 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetThe Frederick Symphony Orchestra Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetDowntown Frederick Partnership Inc: $19,213 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFrederick Book Arts Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetEndangered Species Theatre Project: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetHood College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Delaplaine Foundation IncMD24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The Frederick Arts Council Inc

How much does The Frederick Arts Council Inc give?
The Frederick Arts Council Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $6,500, out of $308,606 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Frederick Arts Council Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (87%), Community Improvement (6%), Philanthropy (3%).
Who are The Frederick Arts Council Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Weinberg Center for the Arts Inc ($57k), Maryland Ensemble Theatre Inc ($46k), The Frederick Childrens Chorus Inc ($43k).
Does The Frederick Arts Council Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Frederick Arts Council Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaplaine Foundation Inc, Ausherman Family Foundation, Ausherman Family Trust.
Where is The Frederick Arts Council Inc based?
The Frederick Arts Council Inc is based in MD.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $84k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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