Maryland · Nonprofit
The Clifton House
The Clifton House (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,000 to it, the largest being T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $306k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $215k
What The Clifton House does
Mission
The Clifton House's mission is to continue the legacy of acclaimed poet Lucille Clifton and community activist Fred Clifton by providing mentorship, local and global resource access, training, and development in the creative arts to underrepresented and underserved people of all ages in the Baltimore and surrounding communities, with particular focus on Afrodiasporic, female, and gender non-conforming LGBTQA+ poets, writers, artists, and creative activists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, The Clifton House continued to expand its impact as one of Baltimore's premier literary and interdisciplinary arts organizations, welcoming hundreds of visitors through a robust calendar of public programs, workshops, screenings, lectures, performances, and community gatherings. Throughout the year, the organization presented dozens of events that celebrated the enduring legacy of Lucille and Fred Clifton while creating meaningful opportunities for artists, writers, scholars, filmmakers, and audiences to engage in dialogue, creative practice, and cultural exchange. Signature initiativesincluding the First Films screening series, poetry workshops, artist conversations, BEAMS youth programming, literary readings, and multidisciplinary performancesregularly attracted audiences from across Baltimore and beyond, fostering intergenerational participation and expanding access to high-quality arts experiences.
$282,288 spent100% of program spendingA defining accomplishment of the year was All of My Bones Remember, a multi-day celebration in partnership with The LIbrary and Jupiter Magazine; honoring the life and work of Lucille Clifton that brought together nearly two hundred attendees for lectures, panel discussions, poetry readings, community conversations, and public gatherings. Through strategic partnerships with literary, educational, and cultural organizations, The Clifton House broadened its reach while strengthening its role as a vibrant center for artistic excellence, creative learning, and civic engagement. Collectively, the organization's 2025 programming served a broad and diverse community of participants, deepened connections among artists and audiences, elevated emerging and established voices, and further advanced The Clifton House's mission to preserve literary heritage while nurturing the next generation of creative practitioners.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $282,288.
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 2022 to 2023, from $15k to $491k (+3256%).
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.
100% of The Clifton House’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 2 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 The Clifton House’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
The Clifton House leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 The Clifton House.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
The Clifton House draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.
Against its field
The Clifton House has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Clifton House
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Clifton House: 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 The Clifton House?
- The Clifton House (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,000 to it, the largest being T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Clifton House have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $120,000 in grants to The Clifton House, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Clifton House?
- T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Clifton House 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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