Maryland · Nonprofit
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.
Against its field
CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,172 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Mertz Gilmore Foundationshared funders
- Les Paul Foundationportfolio match
- The Lewis Prize Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Mertz Gilmore Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
- Les Paul Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewis Prize Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Genesis Inspiration Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Canet Foundation Co Global Business Management Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mockingbird Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Find Your Light Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sheila Fortune Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- D'Addario Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Carnegie Hall Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Young Audiences Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Every Student Every Community Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC
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.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing