Maryland · Nonprofit
ARTS FOR THE AGING INC
ARTS FOR THE AGING INC (Maryland) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,768,487 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($491,717). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $870k
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $812k
What Arts for the Aging Inc does
Mission
Arts for the aging is a human service organization based in greater d.c. That engages regular arts participation to improve physical, cognitive, and emotional health. We connect older adults and caregivers with arts experiences to increase socialization and prevent loneliness. We contract professional artists and equip them with curriculums, trainings, and skills to ignite self-expression and social connection vital to healthy aging and caregiving. We deliver participatory, multidisciplinary arts workshops directly to community and residential care settings that face isolation and treat diverse health conditions. We partner to co-create programs with cultural and educational institutions, and other organizations at the intersection of arts and health. We flip the script on aging by focusing on agency and imagination-what we still can do as we grow older and give care to loved ones. Through dance, music, storytelling, poetry, visual art, and more, we help people connect, create, and fee
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, arts for the aging reached 40 communities in greater d.c.; regularly engaged 864 older adults and 181 professional and family caregivers in 405 arts workshops; delivered 283 custom heart kits for art- making at home; and facilitated these programs by contracting 26 professional, trained teaching artists.
$626,154 spent$25,865 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $626,154.
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 $746k to $1.1M (+42%).
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 19% · 2018 18% · 2019 21% · 2020 34% · 2021 21% · 2022 38% · 2023 27% · 2024 23% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of ARTS FOR THE AGING INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Michelle Baker
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $66k → $270k.
6 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 THE AGING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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 THE AGING INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
50% 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 FOR THE AGING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 37% · 2019 34% · 2020 20% · 2021 35% · 2022 19% · 2023 33% — 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
50% of ARTS FOR THE AGING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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 THE AGING INC draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $760k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 THE AGING INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ARTS FOR THE AGING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $165k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$165k
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 THE AGING 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
79% 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 ARTS FOR THE AGING 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 THE AGING INC?
- ARTS FOR THE AGING INC (Maryland) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,768,487 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($491,717). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS FOR THE AGING INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,768,487 in grants to ARTS FOR THE AGING INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS FOR THE AGING INC?
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER is the largest funder on record, with $491,717 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS FOR THE AGING 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 40 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