Maryland · Nonprofit
ART WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL INC
ART WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,008 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION ($80,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $891k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $297k
- Net assets
- $503k
What Art Works Studio School Inc does
Mission
To build community through the arts by providing affordable, content-rich art classes and projects.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Art programs: art works now offers affordable programming at below market prices in the visual arts for all ages. Programs include low cost skills classes, a workshop for developing individual creative voice and drop in programs for studio activities for toddlers, elementary school age children, teens, and adults. Art works now provides an avenue for emerging artists to exhibit artwork and provides training in the development of professional skills to prepare artists to exhibit their works in commercial galleriesl. Art works now exhibition space is used to provide exhibits of educational value for the community and students.
$706,391 spent$824,758 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $706,391.
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 2019 to 2020, from $663k to $904k (+36%).
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 5% · 2018 6% · 2019 8% · 2020 44% · 2021 51% · 2022 31% · 2023 26% · 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of ART WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Aimee Olivo
Executive director
Board chair
Jessica Port
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $71k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
ART WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
42% 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 WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 33% · 2022 44% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of ART WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
ART WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ART WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding ART WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record — $43k federal, $207k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
- Smithsonian Institution$13k
- Grant$207k
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 WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 ART WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds ART WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL INC?
- ART WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,008 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION ($80,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ART WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $297,008 in grants to ART WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ART WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL INC?
- THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ART WORKS STUDIO SCHOOL 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.
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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 14 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