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Art League of Ocean City Inc

Art League of Ocean City Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $725,453 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC ($295,752). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.0M
Revenue FY2024
18
Funders on record
$725k
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
15/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($594k) Expenses 100 ($534k) Net assets 100 ($673k)2018 Revenue 109 ($647k) Expenses 120 ($640k) Net assets 96 ($644k)2019 Revenue 114 ($680k) Expenses 126 ($673k) Net assets 107 ($720k)2020 Revenue 118 ($701k) Expenses 109 ($580k) Net assets 130 ($874k)2021 Revenue 136 ($807k) Expenses 139 ($742k) Net assets 152 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 132 ($787k) Expenses 166 ($887k) Net assets 125 ($842k)2023 Revenue 196 ($1.2M) Expenses 189 ($1.0M) Net assets 159 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 172 ($1.0M) Expenses 209 ($1.1M) Net assets 155 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (172)Expenses (209)Net assets (155)

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
17
$7k
18
$7k
19
$122k
20
$65k
21
$99k
22
$153k
23
$91k
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3.3
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $11k → $126k.

4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)62% 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 Art League of Ocean City Inc’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.

How concentrated its funding is

Art League of Ocean City Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

62% 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 Art League of Ocean City Inc.

41%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 22% · 2021 31% · 2022 31% · 2023 36%diversifying over time.

“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

75% of Art League of Ocean City Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

62% of Art League of Ocean City Inc'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. Of the $275k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Maryland funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $451k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding Art League of Ocean City Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $132k on record.

State$132k
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24
Top programs
  • Grant$132k

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 Art League of Ocean City Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maryland

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 14%Fundraising 5%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Art League of Ocean City Inc: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Art League of Ocean City Inc?
Art League of Ocean City Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $725,453 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC ($295,752). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Art League of Ocean City Inc have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $725,453 in grants to Art League of Ocean City Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Art League of Ocean City Inc?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC is the largest funder on record, with $295,752 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Art League of Ocean City 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing