Maryland · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,078,500 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($525,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $756k
What Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts and Entertainment District does
Mission
To promote the arts and entertainment activities of black arts district to the greater public, and to promote the availability of the districts tax benefits to artists, arts or entertainment venues, and property owners.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The project restart is a multi-prong initiative to restimulate the creative economy in west baltimore by sponsoring local curators who create arts, entertainment and cultural experiences, curating marquee events and providing training, fellowship, internships, and development and networking opportunities for black creatives. This initiative seeks to reduce the negative economic impacts of the covid 19 pandemic, speed up recovery efforts for the arts and cultural community, and leverage resources as a catalyst for the long-term resilience, vibrancy, and sustainability of black creatives.
$777,837 spentof which $72,652 as grants100% of program spendingThe historical photography project (hpp), a multitiered creative placemaking initiative designed to counter histories of disinvestment that have exacerbated the loss of cultural memory for communities in the pennsylvania avenue corridor of west baltimore. Hpp encourages photographers and residents living in west baltimore to contribute photographs from their personal archives and to create new images that contextualize the history, present and future of west baltimore. Hpp seeks to reimagine blighted historic sites along the pennsylvania avenue corridor in west baltimore by designing and installing permanent photographic banners, developing an innovative, interactive and accessible web-based archive and oral history tool for the capture and repository of black cultural memory in west baltimore, and rendering an engaging educational toolkit for k-12 institutions, nonprofits and community members in and beyond baltimore, md.
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $777,837.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $349k to $822k (+136%).
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 14% · 2023 60% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $65k.
3 of 14 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 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 funders by total. 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
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 42% · 2022 74% · 2023 60% — 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
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $190k 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.
Against its field
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Grant$500k
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 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT: 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 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT?
- PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,078,500 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($525,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,078,500 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 14 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