Maryland · Nonprofit
SALISBURY ARTS ALLIANCE INC
SALISBURY ARTS ALLIANCE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,050 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC ($139,550). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- Richard a Henson Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fundportfolio match
- Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Incportfolio match
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.
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 128% · 2018 144% · 2019 82% · 2020 97% · 2021 85% · 2022 83% · 2023 88% · 2024 95%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $37k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 SALISBURY ARTS ALLIANCE 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
SALISBURY ARTS ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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
85% 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 SALISBURY ARTS ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 90% · 2019 81% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
85% of SALISBURY ARTS ALLIANCE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $28k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $155k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Richard a Henson Foundation Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · funds 27 organizations near you
- The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Heritage Area Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry L Gladding Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Berger Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York Council of Nonprofits Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Arts Strategies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alleghany Foundationportfolio 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.
Organizations like SALISBURY ARTS ALLIANCE INC
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SALISBURY ARTS ALLIANCE 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.
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 SALISBURY ARTS ALLIANCE INC?
- SALISBURY ARTS ALLIANCE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,050 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC ($139,550). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SALISBURY ARTS ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $183,050 in grants to SALISBURY ARTS ALLIANCE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SALISBURY ARTS ALLIANCE INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC is the largest funder on record, with $139,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALISBURY ARTS ALLIANCE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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