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SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC

SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,081 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC ($330,418). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$165k
Revenue FY2024
9
Funders on record
$392k
Grants received
$141k
Net assets
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%

Against its field

SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($127k) Expenses 100 ($60k) Net assets 100 ($112k)2020 Revenue 47 ($60k) Expenses 135 ($82k) Net assets 103 ($115k)2021 Revenue 32 ($40k) Expenses 139 ($84k) Net assets 63 ($71k)2022 Revenue 189 ($241k) Expenses 208 ($126k) Net assets 166 ($186k)2023 Revenue 157 ($200k) Expenses 290 ($175k) Net assets 118 ($133k)2024 Revenue 130 ($165k) Expenses 331 ($200k) Net assets 125 ($141k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (130)Expenses (331)Net assets (125)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 46% · 2021 40% · 2022 22% · 2023 43% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

73% of SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$67k
19
$22k
20
$43k
21
$115k
22
$25k
23
$34k
24
4.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $150 → $10k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)5% 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 SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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

SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC.

84%
largest funder
94%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 84% · 2022 99% · 2023 99%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.

How long its funders stay

40% of SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

98% of SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

IL
NY
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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20
21
22
23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES 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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES 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 SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC?
SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,081 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC ($330,418). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $392,081 in grants to SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC?
BALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $330,418 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 9funders 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