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CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC

CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,391 to it, the largest being PRINCE GEORGES ARTS AND HUMANITIES ($23,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$385k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$55k
Net assets
$50k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Cultural Academy for Excellence Inc does

Mission

To provide a safe haven for student academic support and artistic enrichment. Afterschool program serves 15-20 youngsters, Saturday program serves 25-35 youngsters with strong parent involvement.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. Cultural academy for excellence, inc, entering its 28th year with a program/curricula that supports the organization's afterschool program, and on-line outreach program with md public schools.

    $390,259 spent$385,096 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $390,259.

02The organization over time

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

Barbara Hutchinson

Chair

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $5k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE 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

CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

71% 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 CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC.

42%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 64% · 2022 94% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

0% of CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

94% of CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

NY
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

Organizations like CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC

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In Maryland

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE 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 CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC?
CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,391 to it, the largest being PRINCE GEORGES ARTS AND HUMANITIES ($23,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $55,391 in grants to CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC?
PRINCE GEORGES ARTS AND HUMANITIES is the largest funder on record, with $23,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 8 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