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ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC

ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $366,325 to it, the largest being THE MHE FOUNDATION INC ($116,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$366k
Net assets
$1.3M
7/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Inc does

Mission

To provide leadership, funding, and support that promotes artistic expression and historic preservation and to advocate for resources and education that expand arts opportunities for all, helping to create an enriched and healthy community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Arts in education - providing funding for arts programming to schools in anne arundel county through a partnership with the board of education. Grants - providing general funds to 501c3 arts organizations in anne arundel county as well as project and strategic grants.

    $1,331,692 spentof which $919,022 as grants$2,294 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,331,692.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($891k) Expenses 100 ($853k) Net assets 100 ($263k)2018 Revenue 98 ($873k) Expenses 102 ($871k) Net assets 101 ($265k)2019 Revenue 138 ($1.2M) Expenses 127 ($1.1M) Net assets 154 ($404k)2020 Revenue 120 ($1.1M) Expenses 130 ($1.1M) Net assets 139 ($366k)2021 Revenue 251 ($2.2M) Expenses 231 ($2.0M) Net assets 241 ($633k)2022 Revenue 223 ($2.0M) Expenses 196 ($1.7M) Net assets 360 ($946k)2023 Revenue 246 ($2.2M) Expenses 209 ($1.8M) Net assets 484 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 174 ($1.6M) Expenses 180 ($1.5M) Net assets 502 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 169 ($1.5M) Expenses 185 ($1.6M) Net assets 486 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (169)Expenses (185)Net assets (486)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $946k to $1.3M (+36%).

$263k
$265k
$404k
$421k
$713k
$946k
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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 84% · 2019 90% · 2020 92% · 2021 92% · 2022 93% · 2023 95% · 2024 94% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’17
$2k
’18
$140k
’19
−$38k
’20
$266k
’21
$314k
’22
$402k
’23
$22k
’24
−$71k
’25
1.6
months of
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

April Nyman

President CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed252627252522222021
Joined·+6+6+9+4+9+0+3+7
No longer listed·5511412056
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $39k → $33k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY 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

ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

30% 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 ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC.

32%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 55% · 2019 83% · 2020 54% · 2021 47% · 2022 59% · 2023 60% — 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

60% of ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

99% of ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC's grant income 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. $92k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC's revenue grew 69% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.

State$1.9M
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  • Grant$1.9M

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 11%Fundraising 5%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited 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 ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY 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 ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC?
ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $366,325 to it, the largest being THE MHE FOUNDATION INC ($116,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $366,325 in grants to ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC?
THE MHE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $116,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY 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 9 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