Maryland · Nonprofit
GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC
GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,883,124 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($1,317,868). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture Inc does
Mission
The partnership presents vibrant artistic, cultural, and educational offerings at glen echo park and promotes the park as a unique destination for our region's diverse population. The partnership nurtures a dynamic community of artists and performers while preserving and managing historic facilities within a national park.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education program - presenting more than 800 classes in arts education for all ages to include visual arts and crafts, dance/movement, music, and camp and classes for youth and children in the arts and environmental education. Also presenting programs for parent/child participants in the arts and environmental education.
$640,644 spent$237,254 earned by the program31% of program spendingSocial dance and public events and exhibitions - social dance events featuring live music, social dance lessons in a variety of styles including tango, waltz, contra dances, zydeco, swing dance and other social (partner) dances. Public festivals and events to include carousel day (opening day for families of the historic carousel), then and wow (closing day of the carousel), labor day art show and weekend, heritage days, lgbtq family day, winter's eve, fall frolic and free concerts throughout the summer. Art exhibitions in the popcorn gallery, the stone tower, and the park view gallery featuring a variety of media by local and regional artists.
$517,932 spent$1,120,210 earned by the program25% of program spendingArts facility management - facility management of numerous studio and arts program facilities to include theaters, dance facilities and performance venues, artist studios, classrooms for the benefit of organizations providing arts programming and to provide various programs in the arts and environmental education. Providing rental program to the general public and the community for public events and private receptions. Overseeing food service provided by vendors at the park as an amenity for park programs and operations. Operating and maintaining the historic 1921 dentzel carousel for the benefit of the public and as a park amenity.
$911,588 spent$277,244 earned by the program44% of program spendingMarketing: the organization marketed and promoted glen echo park through advertising and community outreach, highlighting the park's rich history, and appealing to a broad range of cultural, ethnic and socio-economic communities.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,070,164.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.3M to $3.9M (+17%).
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 13% · 2018 24% · 2019 13% · 2020 41% · 2021 59% · 2022 14% · 2023 28% · 2024 20% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% 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.
Chief executive
K Boerner
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $36k → $264k.
10 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE 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
GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 76% · 2019 75% · 2020 65% · 2021 85% · 2022 63% · 2023 69% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
89% of GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE 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 $214k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $561k on record — $20k federal, $541k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
- Grant$541k
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.
Organizations like GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC?
- GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,883,124 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($1,317,868). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,883,124 in grants to GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC?
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER is the largest funder on record, with $1,317,868 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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