Maryland · Nonprofit
MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS
MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $417,250 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM G BAKER JR MEMORIAL FUND ($158,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $594k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $417k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Maryland Citizens for the Arts does
Mission
Mca works to increase public ecognition and support of the arts and the role they play in the education of our children and the quality of life and economic vitality of maryland.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provides information, training, and technical assistance to arts advocates, arts educators, artists, staff and board of arts organizations. This training is done through arts lab and maryland arts summit. Provides information on the value of arts to legislative decision makers and the general public.
$447,847 spent$10,035 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $447,847.
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 $918k to $1.0M (+13%).
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 7% · 2018 7% · 2019 18% · 2020 23% · 2021 41% · 2022 43% · 2023 43% · 2024 32% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS’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. 0 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
Nicholas Cohen
Executive director
Board chair
April Nyman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $40k → $70k.
From the IRS filings of MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS’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 CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 85% · 2019 56% · 2020 30% · 2021 39% · 2022 24% · 2023 36% — 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
50% of MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
61% of MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS has grown faster 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 MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $443k on record.
- Grant$443k
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 MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS
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
93%
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 CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS: 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 CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS?
- MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $417,250 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM G BAKER JR MEMORIAL FUND ($158,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $417,250 in grants to MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS?
- THE WILLIAM G BAKER JR MEMORIAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $158,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS 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 18 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