Maryland · Nonprofit
MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART INC
MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART INC (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,934 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC ($223,950). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $498k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $374k
- Net assets
- $308k
What Maryland Federation of Art Inc does
Mission
Maryland Federation of Art Inc is a nonprofit arts organization whose mission is to create meaningful connections in the community through art. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
MFA hosts 39 exhibitions annually; 13 art exhibitions are staged in Circle Gallery at 18 State Circle in Annapolis, MD. There are 20 exhibitions at other locations and 6 exhibitions online. All exhibitions are free and open to the public. Total audience is 40,000.
$172,116 spent$129,567 earned by the program49% of program spendingMFA hosts and presents Paint Annapolis, a week-long plein-air competition hosting 30 professional juried artists from North America and Great Britain, and 70+ artists from the region, with events throughout the week, giving $16,000 in awards to juried artists and $3,000 in awards to public artists. Events are free and open to the public. Total audience is 10,000.
$176,560 spent$105,123 earned by the program50% of program spendingArt Education and Appreciation: a series of YouTube videos including Wil Talk With Artists, a series of discussions between MFA artists and art historian Dr. Wilford Scott, and a series of juror critiques via ZOOM for all MFA juried exhibitions.
$2,892 spentof which $1,750 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $351,568.
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 $79k to $256k (+224%).
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 10% · 2018 9% · 2019 10% · 2020 13% · 2021 19% · 2022 24% · 2023 27% · 2024 14% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Patrice Drago
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $30k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 FEDERATION OF ART 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 FEDERATION OF ART INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 77% · 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 78% · 2022 70% · 2023 54% — 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
60% of MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
96% of MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART 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. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART 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
98%
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 FEDERATION OF ART 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 FEDERATION OF ART INC?
- MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART INC (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,934 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC ($223,950). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $373,934 in grants to MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART INC?
- ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $223,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART 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 9 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