Maryland · Nonprofit
CARPE DIEM ARTS INC
CARPE DIEM ARTS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,851 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($208,852). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $364k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $431k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Carpe Diem Arts Inc does
Mission
Carpe Diem Arts' mission is to inspire creative self-expression that empowers individuals, strengthens communities, and builds better futures. Through shared arts experiences, individuals of diverse age and culture discover hidden talents and new interests, develop socio-emotional skills, experience personal growth, and build lasting relationships. Led by professional teaching artists, our programs engage and excite participants and help shape our collective tomorrow, bringing the arts to life in ways that matter.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Arts Alive Seniors Outreach Program: Our Arts Alive program at County Senior Centers, rec centers, and senior living communities provides the opportunity for seniors to join actively in various forms of art and movement with other seniors, building connections and honing new skills. Led by skilled teaching artists, seniors experience thinking, creativity, and experimenting and report "wonderful feelings... very happy and fulfilled."
$51,717 spent$47,067 earned by the program19% of program spendingSummer Arts Camp Program: At weeklong sleepaway arts camp on Maryland's Eastern Shore, campers are provided a safe space to explore new art forms, see the world through a fresh lens, and build friendships. The primary focus is on the visual arts, with a healthy dose of song and dance, outdoor activities and field trips. Our weeklong day camps are located in the Takoma Park/Silver Spring area of Maryland, with a one week arts camp for elementary school, a one week camp for middle schoolers that emphasizes arts for social change, and a one week Spanish immersion arts camp. Note: While revenue from our July-August 2023 camp activities fall into the next fiscal year, the summer 2023 camps reflect on our balance sheet data in this fiscal year ended June 2023 in the form of Deferred Income (Part X, Line 19).
$42,881 spent$33,213 earned by the program16% of program spendingDaily Antidote of Song: This activity brings people together in a permanently virtual setting to make each day better, one song at a time. Initially engaging those who were feeling lonely and isolated due to the pandemic, the program lifts the spirits of anyone who is feeling low by engaging them in song, imbuing them with "vitamin H for Harmony" as one artist said, and providing a means for them to connect with others. Artists and songs inspiring social change in the past or today are frequently featured. We sing with over 350 song leaders and hosts from around the world, including GRAMMY, JUNO, and WAMMIE Award-winning artists, representing 20+ countries, and bringing a range of musical genres and styles. Participants have described the Daily Antidote of Song as a a lifeline to strangers who are no longer strangers, an invitation to community, a safe place to share feelings about the turmoil of world events and social injustices going back decades, even centuries, a place that challenges us to think deeply about fighting for justice, a place where one can gain strength, optimism, and motivation to work toward real change and be truly enriched, and a daily reminder that there is…
$37,942 spent$2,724 earned by the program14% of program spendingOther program services: Other Community Arts Outreach in this fiscal year included Jump Start with the Arts for pre-kindergarteners, School Assemblies, Community Sings (group singing), Community Dance, and Concerts.
$137,451 spent$16,767 earned by the program51% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $269,991.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $86k to $122k (+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: 2021 41% · 2022 22% · 2023 44% · 2024 19% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of CARPE DIEM ARTS 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. 3 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $9k → $62k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 CARPE DIEM ARTS 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
CARPE DIEM ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 CARPE DIEM ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 69% · 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 97% · 2022 42% · 2023 71% — 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 CARPE DIEM ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
75% of CARPE DIEM ARTS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $108k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $323k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CARPE DIEM ARTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CARPE DIEM ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 CARPE DIEM ARTS 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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARPE DIEM ARTS 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 CARPE DIEM ARTS INC?
- CARPE DIEM ARTS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,851 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($208,852). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CARPE DIEM ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $430,851 in grants to CARPE DIEM ARTS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARPE DIEM ARTS INC?
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER is the largest funder on record, with $208,852 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARPE DIEM ARTS 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 16 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