Maryland · Nonprofit
GARRETT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC
GARRETT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $356 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($356). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $554k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $356
- Net assets
- $539k
What Garrett County Arts Council Inc does
Mission
Gcac's vision is for garrett county to have a vibrant and sustainable arts community for artists, their audiences, and the community at large. The arts connect our shared humanity, and transform individuals and our garrett county community and region. Gcac is committed to advancing and modeling equity, diversity, accessibility, and inclusion in all aspects of our programs and events, embracing equity and non-discrimination regardless of race, religious creed, color, age, gender expression, sexual orientation, class, language, and/or ability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The gallery shop and the gallery shop, too at grant's mercantile: a program of the garrett county arts council to support business and economic development, the gallery shop is a retail storefront in the heart of the oakland arts & entertainment district providing a venue for local visual artists to show and sell their artwork. Monthly special exhibitions with lectures, workshops and demonstrations, and entertainment were scheduled throughout the year. During the summer months/height of tourism, we offered eight saturday morning visual artist demonstrations in mediums such as colored pencil, oil and cold wax, quilling, paper-cuts, basket weaving, tatting, woodturning, balloon smash art, and yarn spinning. Due to the success of the gallery shop, gcac opened the gallery shop, too in grant's mercantile in the grantsville arts & entertainment district to offer artists, artisans and rural entrepreneurs another accessible artist marketplace and workshop/demonstration space along the I-68 interstate. As part of a partnership with the mountain fresh farmers market, the gallery shop and the gallery shop, too at grant's mercantile feature local, garrett county food producers and artisans to…
$58,341 spent$67,818 earned by the program14% of program spendingArts & entertainment districts: grantsville and oakland the garrett county arts council serves as the managing entity for both of our garrett county arts & entertainment districts. Maryland's arts & entertainment (a&e) districts help develop and promote community involvement, tourism, and revitalization through tax-related incentives that attract artists, arts organizations, and other creative enterprises to towns across the state. A part-time staff position was filled in 2020 (a&e district coordinator) to manage the creation, execution, and marketing of events and activities within both a&e districts. Both a&e districts underwent strategic planning in fy21 to assist with programming goals moving forward in preparation for their state re-designation processes that will begin in 2024 (grantsville) and 2026 (oakland). Both a&e districts run an average of 12 community events annually plus their new, public art programming, which require staff coordination and support. Due to demonstrated workload and funding availability, gcac was able to make the a&e district coordinator a full-time equivalent position in fy24.
$39,009 spent$32,655 earned by the program9% of program spendingMart art's rural entrepreneurship professional development, workshops and community events: in september 2020, with funding support from both the maryland state arts council and rural maryland council, gcac implemented the strategically planned mart art: shared workspace in the oakland a&e district, an ada- accessible shared community workspace equipped with a variety of digital and traditional tools/processes and services that assist rural art entrepreneurs to flourish in the global digital based economy. The development of gcac's mart art program and spaces was both a timely response to the unpredicted covid-19 pandemic and an informed gcac organizational goal to respond to survey data and membership feedback indicating the need for technical assistance and resources to help overcome the lack of skills in digital platforms, production, marketing and business acumen necessary for expanding successful entrepreneurship. In addition to workspaces equipped with art supplies, community worktables, and gallery hanging systems for artists, entrepreneurs and community members to use, we have desktop computers, a 70" monitor for virtual meetings and events, ipads, a digital camera and…
$180,508 spentof which $71,460 as grants$3,578 earned by the program43% of program spendingThe board of directors and staff are committed to aiding, encouraging, advising, and coordinating activities dedicated to the promotion of cultural arts in garrett county, and to integrate such activities into the life of our community. Such programming areas the garrett county arts council continues to develop and strengthen are: artist studio tour; arts- in-education with garrett county public schools and the community; literary arts: ginseng, page-to-stage, play bake oakland writing & literature club, and pirates, poets & scribes; grant-making in the arts: arts-in-education, program/project, independent artists awards and emergency artist relief fund awards; grantsville and oakland arts & entertainment districts; performing arts center at garrett college; public art programming; the gallery shop and the gallery shop, too at grant's mercantile; and mart art's rural entrepreneurship professional development, workshops and community events.
$139,162 spent$30,674 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $417,020.
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 2020 to 2021, from $295k to $431k (+46%).
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 30% · 2018 70% · 2019 70% · 2020 76% · 2021 79% · 2022 80% · 2023 90% · 2024 73% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of GARRETT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $115 → $38.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 GARRETT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 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.
Where its funders are
100% of GARRETT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $356 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
GARRETT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding GARRETT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Grant$1.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
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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 GARRETT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 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 GARRETT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC?
- GARRETT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $356 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($356). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GARRETT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $356 in grants to GARRETT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GARRETT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $356 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GARRETT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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