Maryland · Nonprofit
MARYLAND ART PLACE INC
MARYLAND ART PLACE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,366,825 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,265,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $573k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $-174197
What Maryland Art Place Inc does
Mission
Maryland art place was established to develop and maintain an environment for artists to exhibit their work and facilitate exchanges between artists and the public through educational leadership.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Maryland arts place map inspires, supports, and encourages artistic expression through innovative programming, exhibitions, and educational opportunities while recognizing the powerful impact art can have on our community. Map creates a dynamic environment for artists of our time to engage with the public by nurturing and promoting new ideas. Map has served as a critical resource in the mid-atlantic area since 1981. Map primarily supports emerging and mid-career visual artists often providing a vital foundation for art students entering the workforce by bridging the gap between commercial galleries and museums. On average, map directly serves approximately 500-600 artists, and indirectly serves closer to 3,000 individual artisrs each year. Maps role as the caretaker of the maryland state arts directory plays a significant role in our reach and focus on maryland based artists.
$303,789 spent$195,536 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $303,789.
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 2019 to 2020, from $329k to $550k (+67%).
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: 2018 6% · 2019 11% · 2020 95% · 2021 94% · 2023 23% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of MARYLAND ART PLACE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Amy Royce
Executive director
Board chair
Elizabeth S Courtemanche
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $22k → $757k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 MARYLAND ART PLACE 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
MARYLAND ART PLACE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 23% · 2019 42% · 2020 29% · 2021 50% · 2022 43% · 2023 54% — 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
62% of MARYLAND ART PLACE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
MARYLAND ART PLACE INC draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $420k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
MARYLAND ART PLACE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MARYLAND ART PLACE 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 MARYLAND ART PLACE 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 MARYLAND ART PLACE INC?
- MARYLAND ART PLACE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,366,825 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,265,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARYLAND ART PLACE INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,366,825 in grants to MARYLAND ART PLACE INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARYLAND ART PLACE INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,265,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARYLAND ART PLACE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing