Maryland · Nonprofit
ANN'S CIRCLE INC
ANN'S CIRCLE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,235 to it, the largest being CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST ($21,358). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Ann's Circle Inc does
Mission
Anns circle is committed to connecting people to art and nature. Through a wide variety of engaging exhibits, programs, classes, public projects, and annual events, anns circle opens up opportunities for creativity, collaboration, and reflection. By providing opportunities for visitors to experience and engage in imaginative continued in sch o
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education - programs that consist of summer camps, classes, nature walks, and other mission-driven art and nature programs as well as working with the koenig private foundation to plan, manage, and budget for and evaluate other programs and events.
$933,222 spentof which $900,095 as grants$151,488 earned by the program82% of program spendingGarden events - anns circle is committed to connecting people to art and nature. Through a wide variety of engaging exhibits, programs, classes, workshops, public projects, and annual events, anns circle open up opportunities for creativity, collaboration, and reflection. By providing opportunities for visitors to experience and engage in imaginative activities, the garden seeks to nurture the human spirit and contribute to a healthy society.garden events that occurred during the year included garden in the lights, artsfest, halloween at the garden, insectival, makers market, and the fairy festival.
$167,705 spent$875,494 earned by the program15% of program spendingExhibits - consists of a rotating exhibit program, which allows hundreds of artists to display their work in our galleries each year. Artists hail from southern maryland and across the u.s.
$36,065 spent$42,181 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,136,992.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $715k to $1.3M (+80%).
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: 2017 10% · 2018 2% · 2019 9% · 2020 13% · 2021 14% · 2022 5% · 2023 15% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of ANN'S CIRCLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $250 → $15k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 ANN'S CIRCLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 funders by total. 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.
How concentrated its funding is
ANN'S CIRCLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ANN'S CIRCLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of ANN'S CIRCLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of ANN'S CIRCLE INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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
ANN'S CIRCLE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ANN'S CIRCLE INC
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Koenig Private Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANN'S CIRCLE INC?
- ANN'S CIRCLE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,235 to it, the largest being CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST ($21,358). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANN'S CIRCLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $64,235 in grants to ANN'S CIRCLE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANN'S CIRCLE INC?
- CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $21,358 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANN'S CIRCLE INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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