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SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC

SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,109,841 to it, the largest being THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ($600,621). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.3M
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
$15M
22/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc does

Mission

Founded in 1931 as the society for the preservation of maryland antiquities, preservation maryland is dedicated to preserving maryland's historic buildings, neighborhoods, landscapes, and archaeological sites through outreach, funding, and advocacy. Preservation maryland is the state's oldest historic preservation organization.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Funding - supports preservation projects and organizations through loans and grants.

    $45,440 spentof which $28,244 as grants
    1% of program spending
  2. Education and outreach - works with targeted organizations to assess specific needs and to help address them through technical assistance, workshops, publications, and grants. Also sponsors conferences, lectures, and tours.

    $649,271 spent$2,378 earned by the program
    21% of program spending
  3. Advocacy - supports the cause of historic preservation broadly as a participant in annual efforts to ensure appropriate public funding for government preservation programs.

    $9,950 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. The society provides other preservation services and maintains historical buildings and artifacts to further educate the public about maryland history.

    $2,379,785 spent
    77% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,084,446.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($715k) Expenses 100 ($914k) Net assets 100 ($8.8M)2018 Revenue 121 ($863k) Expenses 94 ($854k) Net assets 106 ($9.3M)2019 Revenue 452 ($3.2M) Expenses 151 ($1.4M) Net assets 113 ($9.9M)2020 Revenue 189 ($1.3M) Expenses 131 ($1.2M) Net assets 125 ($11M)2021 Revenue 391 ($2.8M) Expenses 181 ($1.7M) Net assets 148 ($13M)2022 Revenue 389 ($2.8M) Expenses 211 ($1.9M) Net assets 130 ($11M)2023 Revenue 280 ($2.0M) Expenses 230 ($2.1M) Net assets 137 ($12M)2024 Revenue 602 ($4.3M) Expenses 297 ($2.7M) Net assets 174 ($15M)
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Revenue (602)Expenses (297)Net assets (174)Peer revenue range

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 $14M to $18M (+25%).

$10M
$11M
$12M
$13M
$15M
$13M
$14M
$18M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 16% · 2022 34% · 2023 32% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

78% of SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$198k
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$8k
’18
$1.9M
’19
$149k
’20
$1.1M
’21
$850k
’22
−$92k
’23
$1.6M
’24
7.2
months of
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.

Chief executive

Nicholas Redding

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2523262425232123
Joined·+6+7+5+3+5+2+7
No longer listed·8472745
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $61k → $205k.

4 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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

SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

28%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 46% · 2019 39% · 2020 39% · 2021 31% · 2022 29% · 2023 46% — 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.

How long its funders stay

44% of SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 9 states in all.

IL
NY
IN
PA
NJ
VA
MD
DC
TX

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

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $285k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin37% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.1M on record — $6.7M federal, $400k state.

Federal$6.7M
grants $6.7Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$6.7M
  • National Endowment for the Arts$50k
State$400k
Top programs
  • Grant$400k

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 SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 12%Fundraising 4%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

86%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Hargett Farms LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC?
SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,109,841 to it, the largest being THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ($600,621). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,109,841 in grants to SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC?
THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $600,621 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES 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 32 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