Maryland · Nonprofit
KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC
KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $962,295 to it, the largest being FORDI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($277,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $554k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $962k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Kent Cultural Alliance Inc does
Mission
To encourage, promote, and support arts and humanities activities in kent county, md and the upper eastern shore region of maryland.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To encourage, promote and support arts and humanities activties in kent county, md and the upper eastern shore region of maryland.
$495,233 spentof which $52,600 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $495,233.
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.
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 $681k to $1.6M (+135%).
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 47% · 2018 44% · 2019 47% · 2020 56% · 2021 65% · 2022 43% · 2023 75% · 2024 29% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $22k → $160k.
8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE 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
KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 36% · 2019 59% · 2020 87% · 2021 34% · 2022 50% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.
“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
36% of KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
78% of KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE 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. $165k 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.
Government funding KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $591k on record — $114k federal, $477k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$114k
- Grant$477k
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 KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE 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
80% 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 KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE 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 KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC?
- KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $962,295 to it, the largest being FORDI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($277,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $962,295 in grants to KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC?
- FORDI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $277,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE 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 20 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