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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 FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$267kCommunity Improvement$19kPhilanthropy$10kEducation$10k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $6,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $308,606 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $302,106 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.
$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$635k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS$6,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 8% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LA NAPOULE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%DELAPLAINE VISUAL ARTS CENTER: $14k → 6%COMMUNITY ARTS INC: $15k → 12%WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $14k → 6%MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $14k → 6%DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP: $13k → 6%HOOD COLLEGE: $10k → 6%FREDERICK BOOK ARTS CENTER: $10k → 6%ACADEMY FOR THE FINE ARTS: $10k → 6%MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $10k → 6%MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $9k → 6%WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $9k → 6%WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $8k → 6%WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $8k → 6%MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $8k → 6%DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP: $7k → 6%WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $7k → 6%WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $6k → 6%WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $6k → 6%MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $6k → 6%FREDERICK CHILDREN'S CHORUS: $10k → 6%FREDERICK CHILDREN'S CHORUS: $8k → 6%FCC FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 6%FREDERICK CHILDREN'S CHORUS: $7k → 6%ENDANGERED SPECIES THEATRE PROJECT: $10k → 6%FREDERICK REGIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $7k → 6%FREDERICK CHILDREN'S CHORUS: $7k → 6%FREDERICK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $9k → 6%FREDERICK REGIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $7k → 6%FREDERICK CHILDREN'S CHORUS: $6k → 6%FREDERICK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $8k → 6%FREDERICK REGIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $7k → 6%FREDERICK CHILDREN'S CHORUS: $5k → 6%FREDERICK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $8k → 6%THE FREDERICK CHORALE: $6k → 6%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.
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$211k · 6 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$211k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WC
    WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +23%
  • ME
    MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +50%
  • TF
    THE FREDERICK CHILDRENS CHORUS INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ARTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • DV
    DELAPLAINE VISUAL ARTS CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $14k
  • AF
    ACADEMY FOR THE FINE ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Maryland Lyric Opera
Arts & Culture
2
Artslive
Arts & Culture
3
Franklin Southampton Community Concerts Association

Community Concerts - Musical Enrichment

Arts & Culture
4
Celebrate Frederick Inc

To plan and implement special events and activities to offer the community a shared cultural experience.

Arts & Culture
5
Franklin Light Opera
—
6
Fredericksburg Theater Company

To provide superior theatrical programs for regional participation that entertain, educate, enrich and inspire.

Arts & Culture
7
Florissant Fine Arts Council

To bring musical and dramatic performanc

—
8
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Virginia Chamber Orchestra

The orchestra's mission is to perform fine music with highest artistic integrity for the broadest possible audience.

Arts & Culture
10
Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble

Offering Professional Music Concerts

—
11
Master Chorus Eastside

Cultural Education and Entertainment

Arts & Culture
12
Washington Master Chorale Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frederick Childrens Chorus Inc; the most unlike its peers is Endangered Species Theatre Project. 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $57,000 · Arts & CultureWEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCTHE FREDERICK CHILDRENS CHORUS INC: $43,050 · Arts & CultureTHE FREDERICK CHILDRENS CHORUS INCThe Frederick Symphony Orchestra Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe Frederick Symphony Orchestra IncFREDERICK BOOK ARTS CENTER INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFREDERICK BOOK ARTS CENTER INCENDANGERED SPECIES THEATRE PROJECT: $10,000 · Arts & CultureENDANGERED SPECIES THEATRE PROJECTFREDERICK REGIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC: $21,000 · OtherFREDERICK REGIONAL YOUTH ORCHES…COMMUNITY ARTS INC: $15,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ARTS INCDELAPLAINE VISUAL ARTS CENTER: $13,500 · OtherDELAPLAINE VISUAL ARTS CENTERACADEMY FOR THE FINE ARTS: $10,000 · OtherACADEMY FOR THE FINE ARTSFCC FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherFCC FOUNDATION INCLA NAPOULE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherLA NAPOULE FOUNDATIONTHE FREDERICK CHORALE INC: $6,000 · OtherTHE FREDERICK CHORALE INCMARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE INC: $46,000 · EducationMARYLAND ENSEMBLE TH…HOOD COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationHOOD COLLEGEDOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC: $19,213 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$145,050Other$85,500Education$56,000Community Improvement$19,213

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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…Ausherman Family Foun…Ausherman Family TrustNora Roberts Foundati…The Community Foundat…G Frank Thomas Fdn In…William E Cross Found…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Frederick Arts Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frederick Arts Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 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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