Maryland · Nonprofit
AFRICAN ART MUSEUM OF MARYLAND
AFRICAN ART MUSEUM OF MARYLAND (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $182 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($182). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $182
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What African Art Museum of Maryland does
Mission
The African Art Museum of Maryland is dedicated to collecting, exhibiting and preserving, for the public, the art of Africa. The museum is further dedicated to increasing the awareness of African art and culture; while encouraging a broader understanding and deeper appreciation of the diverse art and cultures of the continent of Africa.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The African Art Museum of Maryland is open year round for the display and exhibition of traditional African art. The museum conducts and provides, both on and off site, African Experience Tours for schools and other groups to introduce and reacquaint the public with African traditions in art, music, dance, history, religion, family and community.
$27,936 spent$22,694 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,936.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $1.3M (+4%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 50% · 2022 86% · 2023 62% · 2024 89% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of AFRICAN ART MUSEUM OF MARYLAND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $16 → $28.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AFRICAN ART MUSEUM OF MARYLAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of AFRICAN ART MUSEUM OF MARYLAND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $182 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AFRICAN ART MUSEUM OF MARYLAND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding AFRICAN ART MUSEUM OF MARYLAND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Grant$100k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AFRICAN ART MUSEUM OF MARYLAND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFRICAN ART MUSEUM OF MARYLAND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AFRICAN ART MUSEUM OF MARYLAND?
- AFRICAN ART MUSEUM OF MARYLAND (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $182 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($182). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AFRICAN ART MUSEUM OF MARYLAND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $182 in grants to AFRICAN ART MUSEUM OF MARYLAND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN ART MUSEUM OF MARYLAND?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $182 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN ART MUSEUM OF MARYLAND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing