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TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC

TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,000 to it, the largest being MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$244k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$69k
Net assets
$124k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Talbot County Arts Council Inc does

Mission

Allocate government funds to art programs in talbot county, md and make sub-grants to eligible and deserving arts programs of non-profit and government-related organizations and schools.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Three types of grant programs offered each year to support the arts in talbot county: $135,650 of community arts development grants are provided to 25 non-profit and government related organizations to support art programs; $18,004 of arts-in-education grants are provided to talbot county public and private elementary and secondary schools to promote arts during school hours; $7,134 in arts scholarships provided to 10 students for advanced artistic training. In addition $2,000 in mini grants were provided to launch pilot programs.

    $162,763 spentof which $162,763 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $162,763.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($169k) Expenses 100 ($153k) Net assets 100 ($23k)2021 Revenue 112 ($189k) Expenses 109 ($167k) Net assets 197 ($45k)2022 Revenue 119 ($201k) Expenses 141 ($216k) Net assets 133 ($30k)2023 Revenue 212 ($359k) Expenses 158 ($242k) Net assets 644 ($147k)2024 Revenue 163 ($276k) Expenses 181 ($278k) Net assets 635 ($145k)2025 Revenue 144 ($244k) Expenses 174 ($267k) Net assets 541 ($124k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (144)Expenses (174)Net assets (541)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 2022 to 2023, from $30k to $147k (+385%).

$23k
$45k
$30k
$147k
$145k
$124k
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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.

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2021
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 89% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 56% · 2024 77% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 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.

$16k
’20
$22k
’21
−$15k
’22
$117k
’23
−$2k
’24
−$23k
’25
4.5
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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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed141414121413
Joined·+3+1+2+3+4
No longer listed·31415
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $5k.

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1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 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

TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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

58% 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 TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC.

58%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 56% · 2019 56% · 2020 56% · 2021 100% · 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

58% of TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 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 $29k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.

MD

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. $40k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.

State$1.7M
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  • Grant$1.7M

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 TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 39%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC?
TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,000 to it, the largest being MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $69,000 in grants to TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC?
MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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