Maryland · Nonprofit
SPACE FREE ART FOR ALL INC
SPACE FREE ART FOR ALL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,338 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $124k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $2k
What Space Free Art for All Inc does
Mission
The SPACE Free Art For All is a Black-founded and Black-led community arts studio and makerspace that provides free access to quality art supplies, materials, and equipment to underserved communities in Greenbelt and greater Prince George's County, MD.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Program 1: Free Art For All: Community Arts & Makerspace Access In 2024, served over 5,500 participants with over 300 free classes and workshops in painting, drawing, mixed media, 3D design and printing, laser engraving, vinyl transfers, and music instruction-all designed to foster creativity, skill-building, and self-expression. Partnered in a collaborative community outreach and communications project.
$84,456 spent60% of program spendingProgram 2: Artrepreneurship: Workforce Development & Entrepreneurship Training Currently supporting 26 individuals to enhance employment opportunities to launch their own creative businesses, this program provides hands-on training and mentorship in creative entrepreneurship, technical design, and digital fabrication; emphasizing career readiness, creative problem-solving, and business development, with a focus on empowering youth and adults from historically marginalized backgrounds.
$50,000 spent35% of program spendingProgram 3: Revolutionary Self-Care: Wellness & Community Connection To support mental and emotional well-being. Offerings include free weekly yoga, meditation, and movement classes, a community library, a free clothing rack, food pantry, and distributes take-home art kits. These offerings promote healing, connection, and creativity in a safe, inclusive environment.
$6,626 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $141,082.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $20k to $2k (−89%).
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.
7% of SPACE FREE ART FOR ALL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Shaymar Higgs
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $72 → $96.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SPACE FREE ART FOR ALL 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
SPACE FREE ART FOR ALL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SPACE FREE ART FOR ALL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 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
100% of SPACE FREE ART FOR ALL 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
SPACE FREE ART FOR ALL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SPACE FREE ART FOR ALL 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.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPACE FREE ART FOR ALL INC?
- SPACE FREE ART FOR ALL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,338 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPACE FREE ART FOR ALL INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,338 in grants to SPACE FREE ART FOR ALL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPACE FREE ART FOR ALL INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPACE FREE ART FOR ALL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 2 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