Maryland · Nonprofit
ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC
ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,972,356 to it, the largest being SAUL ZAENTZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($3,018,720). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Arts for Learning Maryland Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to transform the lives and education of our youth through the arts by connecting educators, professional artists, and communities. This mission is achieved by providing assemblies, workshops, residencies, and professional development opportunities for educators and artists that are aligned with common core state standards and are accessible to any organization or school regardless of their resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Asala is offered in partnership with baltimore city public schools. The program pairs a classroom teacher and a professional teaching artist to deliver arts-integrated math and literacy lessons to elementary and middle school students. Participating students receive three hours of extended academic learning and enrichment per day, four days a week. Students are introduced to a wide variety of art forms, from illustration and spoken word to percussion, drama, and dance, and have a chance to work alongside students from across the city and learn from professional artists. During the year ended august 31, 2025, arts for learning served 610 students with 88,569 student learning hours.
$9,955,521 spent$4,405,474 earned by the program67% of program spendingSala is an award winning summer program, operated in partnership with baltimore city schools. This five-week, full-day summer program curbs summer learning loss in literacy and math by providing arts-integrated instruction. The power of sala lies in the collaboration between teaching artists and educators who co-teach children in the program, prek through sixth grade. In addition to academic instruction, students have enrichment opportunities in the arts, athletics, robotics, and field trips. Students develop socially and emotionally, expand their creative process, and explore arts experiences that support their growth. During the year ended august 31, 2025, arts for learning served 1,980 students through sala.
$2,028,435 spent$5,675,381 earned by the program14% of program spendingAs the maryland affiliate of wolf trap institute for early learning, the organization offers residency programs designed specifically for our youngest learners (from birth through kindergarten). Additionally, the organization also offers diverse early learning programming, including family engagement workshops, teacher professional development, and assemblies. These workshops are led by wolf trap master teaching artists and our director of early childhood. The organization offers participating child care providers the opportunity to earn the msde core of knowledge hours required to retain their licenses, which allows the organization to recruit and build relationships with many new child care providers.during the year ended august 31, 2025, arts for learning reached 13,627 early learners through our programming.
$1,500,718 spent$876,116 earned by the program10% of program spendingThe organization drives student success and community connection across maryland through a comprehensive suite of arts-integrated educational programs. This includes live assemblies that expose audiences of up to 250 students at a time to diverse cultures, core curricula, and social-emotional skills; classroom residencies (serving youth from birth through grade 12) where professional teaching artists collaborate with educators to deliver deep-dive fine arts and arts-integrated lessons; and hands-on family engagement workshops that blend arts with literacy, stem, and community building. To expand statewide access, the organization hosts live-streamed virtual cultural festivals for schools, while simultaneously delivering robust professional development programsranging from localized workshops to intensive, yearlong fellowships for school leadersthat empower adults to use the arts as a powerful vehicle for inspiration, equity, and joy.
$1,270,274 spent$985,674 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,754,948.
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 2022 to 2023, from $7.3M to $14M (+87%).
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 12% · 2019 8% · 2020 7% · 2021 14% · 2022 14% · 2023 12% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Stacie Sanders Evans
President & CEO
Board chair
Sheelagh M Allston
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $389k → $1.9M.
15 of 74 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 ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 27% · 2019 35% · 2020 32% · 2021 27% · 2022 36% · 2023 40% — 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
53% of ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $514k on record — $425k federal, $90k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$425k
- Grant$90k
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 ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND 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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND 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 FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC?
- ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,972,356 to it, the largest being SAUL ZAENTZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($3,018,720). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $12,972,356 in grants to ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC?
- SAUL ZAENTZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,018,720 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND 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 74 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing