Maryland · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION INC
DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($32,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $39M
What Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission Inc does
Mission
The downtown columbia arts and culture commission is a not-for-profit community organization dedicated to growing arts, culture and community in merriweather post pavilion and throughout downtown columbia. As owners of merriweather post pavilion, we work to enhance this cultural centerpiece and the majestic woodland park that surrounds it through artistic and community programs and stewardship. In collaboration with community partners, business, government, and educational institutions, we produce, present and promote artistic and learning programs and engage, uplift, and inspire.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
See schedule othe merriweather arts and culture center (macc)formerly the downtown columbia arts and culture commissionis a non-profit organization working to expand artistic, cultural, civic, and educational programming in and around merriweather post pavilion and downtown columbia, maryland. The 2025 season was macc's most expansive since its founding in 2013. Across residencies, youth performances, free community concerts, multicultural festivals, and teen-led evens, macc welcoming more than 48,000 attendees from across howard county and the region. Our programs this year emphasized accessibility, collaboration, and a vibrant representation of global and local cultures-providing arts experiences that uplift, connect, and inspire.highlightskyshona residency & performance: macc hosted nashville-based singer-songwriter and music therapist kyshona for a week-long residency at wilde lake high school, long reach high school, and long reach middle school. Students received individualized feedback on composition, practice techniques, performance skills, and stage presence. The residency culminated in a ticketed performance at slayton house theater, featuring both kyshona and the…
$2,856,009 spent$1,207,590 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,856,009.
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. 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 2017 to 2018, from $35M to $52M (+47%).
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 34% · 2018 93% · 2019 37% · 2020 79% · 2021 86% · 2022 52% · 2023 24% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Ian Kennedy
Executive director
Board chair
Kenneth Ulman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $21k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION 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
DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 49% — 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.
Where its funders are
86% of DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION 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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION INC's revenue fell 86% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION INC?
- DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($32,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $67,500 in grants to DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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