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Maryland · Nonprofit
BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS (Maryland) is funded by 13 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $1,457,085 in grants to it, the largest being VINCENT RAUTH GROH AND BARBARA ($1,024,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 20,012 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 20,012 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
78% of BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (55% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
$16k from 2 funders in 2025, up from $34k and 6 in 2017.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 49% · 2019 53% · 2020 85% · 2021 80% · 2022 75% · 2023 77% · 2024 78% · 2025 61% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
67% of BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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.
BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS is locally rooted: 99% of its grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 13 funders put you typical among the 217 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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
66% of spending goes to programs.
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 13funders 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. view filing