Maryland · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT (Maryland) receives grants from 13 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.
Against its field
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Incshared funders
- Youth Speaks Incportfolio match
- Harry L Gladding Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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 (64% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $65k.
2 of 13 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). 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 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Incshared fundersMD · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Youth Speaks Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry L Gladding Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Equity & Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Poss Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Samuel and Latanya R Jackson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Forman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Philadelphia Cultural Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Academy of American Poets Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Council of Washington DCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peck Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian Arts Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT?
- PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT (Maryland) receives grants from 13 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 13 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 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing