Maryland · Nonprofit
The Downtown Columbia Partnership
The Downtown Columbia Partnership (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $33,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ($33,000). 0 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
- $543k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $315k
What The Downtown Columbia Partnership does
Mission
To promote the growth and vitality of the community and its businesses, support transportation initiatives, implement beautification projects, maintain open spaces and amenity areas, initiate and sponsor events that bring people together, and promote public safety.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Marketed the Downtown Columbia area as a vibrant, economically robust and desirable place to live, work and play. Hosted various events to bring people together and create a greater sense of community.
$266,393 spent$85,000 earned by the program54% of program spendingFacilitated various transportation/micro-mobility initiatives to include: Continued development of a transportation demand management plan (TDMP). Finalized a Walk Audit to assess the walkability of Downtown Columbia and gathered data to improve pedestrian safety. Hosted multiple events to exhibit the walkability and bikeability of our community.
$172,347 spent$167,473 earned by the program35% of program spendingContinued implementation of the community framework for environmental sustainability and promotion of public safety.
$53,540 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $492,280.
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 2023 to 2024, from $429k to $340k (−21%).
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.
95% of The Downtown Columbia Partnership’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Phillip Dodge
Exec Director
Board chair
Gregory Fitchitt
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $33k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Columbia Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money The Downtown Columbia Partnership raised.
From the IRS filings of The Downtown Columbia Partnership’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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Downtown Columbia Partnership'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. $33k 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 Downtown Columbia Partnership receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $33k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Downtown Columbia Partnership
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Downtown Columbia Partnership: 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 Downtown Columbia Partnership?
- The Downtown Columbia Partnership (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $33,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ($33,000). 0 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 The Downtown Columbia Partnership have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $33,000 in grants to The Downtown Columbia Partnership.
- Who is the largest funder of The Downtown Columbia Partnership?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $33,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Downtown Columbia Partnership 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 1 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