Maryland · Nonprofit
WATERFOWL FESTIVAL INC
WATERFOWL FESTIVAL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $54,642 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($54,642). 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 FY2021
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $0
What Waterfowl Festival Inc does
Mission
Waterfowl Festival Inc. Is dedicated to wildlife conservation, the promotion of wildlife art, and the celebration of life on marylands eastern shore.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Continuing the tradition of the longest-running event of its kind, the 2019 waterfowl festival offered adults and children an exploration into wildlife, folk and traditional artworks that exemplify the cultural heritage of the chesapeake bay region. The event has attracted on an annual basis up to 19,000 attendees and produced an estimated economic impact of more than 6 million on talbot county. During the festival, historic and contemporary buildings serve as venues for art and cultural exhibits showcasing the works of over 300 exhibitors. Food, music, retriever and other demonstrations, as well as art and nature activities for children are also featured. Renowned for the quality of its art and the breadth of its activities, the waterfowl festival event draws artists and visitors from around the world. In early 2021, the board voted to merge the festivals operations into its affiliate organization, waterfowl chespeake inc.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $471k to $269k (−43%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 7% · 2020 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 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
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.
From the IRS filings of WATERFOWL FESTIVAL 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WATERFOWL FESTIVAL 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. $55k 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.
Organizations like WATERFOWL FESTIVAL 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.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Waterfowl Chesapeake Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WATERFOWL FESTIVAL INC: 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 WATERFOWL FESTIVAL INC?
- WATERFOWL FESTIVAL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $54,642 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($54,642). 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 WATERFOWL FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $54,642 in grants to WATERFOWL FESTIVAL INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WATERFOWL FESTIVAL INC?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $54,642 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATERFOWL FESTIVAL 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), 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