Maryland · Nonprofit
CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION
CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION (Maryland) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $335,332 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC ($94,150). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $166k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $335k
- Net assets
- $0
What Creating Communities Corporation does
Mission
We partner with communities, nonprofit organizations and title I schools to help close the opportunity gap by providing children from low income households with direct access to innovative arts and mentoring programs.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
The arts mentorship academy - a four week summer program for 100 students from low-income households that includes five core arts and enrichment sessions per day. A variety of arts and stem activities are used to create individual and collaborative projects. World class artist/mentors, healthy meals, supplies and tuition are provided at no cost to the participants.
$35,938 spent10% of program spendingYouth programs - six afterschool clubs in city of annapolis and anne arundel county public schools are delivered, serving children from public/subsidized housing neighborhoods and title I schools including georgetown east elementary, reach, harbour house/eastport terrace, annapolis gardens, eastport united methodist church and mills-parole elementary. Program activities include crafts, photography, drawing, reading centers, games, circle time, as well as stem activities with snap circuits, legos and building sets. All programs are aligned and delivered with the national science and common core arts standards.
$94,857 spent26% of program spendingArts integration and outreach programs - a collaboration with classroom teachers in title I schools, including southgate elementary in glen burnie, to connect the curriculum to arts activities in order to provide more creative ways of learning course material and fostering engagement in the classroom. A world class teaching artist works side-by-side with content teachers (math, science, social studies, language arts) to fuse their particular art form with standards drawn from both the school system and common core. Professional development opportunities to deepen mentor, teacher and community engagement are also offered. The family arts cohort delivered arts and stem supplies to over thirty-five families followed by live arts instruction via zoom with a master teaching artist.
$33,267 spent9% of program spendingVarious arts and music enrichment programs
$201,229 spentof which $201,229 as grants55% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $365,291.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $300k to $0 (−100%).
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 15% · 2018 16% · 2019 18% · 2020 14% · 2021 18% · 2022 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Matt Larson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $29k → $29k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION’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
CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
62% 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 CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 36% · 2019 38% · 2020 30% · 2021 46% · 2022 45% · 2023 52% — 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
38% of CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
70% of CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION: 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 CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION?
- CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION (Maryland) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $335,332 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC ($94,150). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $335,332 in grants to CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION?
- ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $94,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATING COMMUNITIES CORPORATION 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 10 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