Maryland · Nonprofit
NEW SPIRE ARTS INC
NEW SPIRE ARTS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,439,028 to it, the largest being AUSHERMAN FAMILY TRUST ($1,330,879). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $-14378
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $0
What New Spire Arts Inc does
Mission
New spire arts inspires creative engagement from all facets of the community by providing programming and education in, about, and through the performing arts.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Provided arts education in the frederick county community by providing programming centered around live music and the performing arts, acccessible to all ages. We curate vibrant, unique, and unforgettable events and experiences featuring a mix of touring artists, musicians, and performers and collaboration with local arts organizations and aspiring artists.
$17,375 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,375.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $21k to $280k (+1228%).
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: 2021 58% · 2022 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Della C Colville
Board chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $345k → $36.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 NEW SPIRE ARTS 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
NEW SPIRE ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 NEW SPIRE ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 97% · 2019 96% · 2020 83% · 2021 72% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of NEW SPIRE ARTS 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. $22k 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 NEW SPIRE ARTS 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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
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 NEW SPIRE ARTS 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 NEW SPIRE ARTS INC?
- NEW SPIRE ARTS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,439,028 to it, the largest being AUSHERMAN FAMILY TRUST ($1,330,879). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW SPIRE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,439,028 in grants to NEW SPIRE ARTS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW SPIRE ARTS INC?
- AUSHERMAN FAMILY TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,330,879 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW SPIRE ARTS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 7 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