Maryland · Nonprofit
MARLOW GUITAR INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
MARLOW GUITAR INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $443,752 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($288,833). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $225k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $444k
- Net assets
- $17k
What Marlow Guitar International Incorporated does
Mission
To create community through music, by drawing people together for entertainment, education, and inspiration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
John e. Marlow concert series: presented six in-person concerts featuring international and american guitarists to an average audience of 266.
$176,438 spent$65,798 earned by the program78% of program spendingYouth guitar competition: conducted a classical guitar competition for young artists in the washington-baltimore area.
$29,219 spent$11,652 earned by the program13% of program spendingVeterans program: provided 44 free guitar lessons to veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder and other issues arising from their military service.
$18,430 spent8% of program spendingPresented a workshop "striking the right chord: music's power to heal" with karen agro.
$675 spent$233 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $224,762.
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 $21k to $44k (+110%).
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 10% · 2023 42% · 2024 32% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of MARLOW GUITAR INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED’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. 3 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
Joao Figueiroa
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $81k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 MARLOW GUITAR INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED’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
MARLOW GUITAR INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 MARLOW GUITAR INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 70% · 2022 59% · 2023 71% — 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
99% of MARLOW GUITAR INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $438k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MARLOW GUITAR INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED's revenue grew 50% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MARLOW GUITAR INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARLOW GUITAR INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED?
- MARLOW GUITAR INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $443,752 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($288,833). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARLOW GUITAR INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $443,752 in grants to MARLOW GUITAR INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARLOW GUITAR INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED?
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER is the largest funder on record, with $288,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARLOW GUITAR INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED 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 5 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