Maryland · Nonprofit
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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $340k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $392k
- Net assets
- $142k
What Sankofa Childrens Museum of African Cultures Inc does
Mission
To educate, inspire and connect children from all walks of life to the vast physical and cultural diversity of the african continent and to promote understanding through engagement with art, culture and history of the continents myriad diversities and contribution to society
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hosted over one thousand unique visitors
$281,270 spent$340,024 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $281,270.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $176k to $357k (+103%).
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: 2020 46% · 2021 40% · 2022 22% · 2023 43% · 2024 41% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Nichele Mason
Interim board chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 9 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing