Maryland · Nonprofit
EMBASSY SERIES
EMBASSY SERIES (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $70,000 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE L SHIELDS FOUNDATION INC ($70,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
EMBASSY SERIES has grown faster than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomerlocalportfolio match
- United Way of Frederick County Incshared funders
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio match
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.
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.
23% of EMBASSY SERIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of EMBASSY SERIES’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.
Where its funders are
100% of EMBASSY SERIES's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomerlocalportfolio matchMD · funds 136 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Frederick County Incshared fundersMD · backs 13 organizations that share your funders
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Music USA Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chamber Music America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Fairfax County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tri-M Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Springboard for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frisco Association for the Artsportfolio 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 EMBASSY SERIES
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.
Public support
41%
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 EMBASSY SERIES: 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 EMBASSY SERIES?
- EMBASSY SERIES (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $70,000 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE L SHIELDS FOUNDATION INC ($70,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMBASSY SERIES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $70,000 in grants to EMBASSY SERIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMBASSY SERIES?
- THE GEORGE L SHIELDS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMBASSY SERIES 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 1funders 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