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WILEY H BATES LEGACY CENTER INC

WILEY H BATES LEGACY CENTER INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,255 to it, the largest being ARUNDEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC ($120,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$91k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$132k
Net assets
$89k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Wiley H Bates Legacy Center Inc does

Mission

Cultural center and museum

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The Bates Legacy Learning Initiative served over 500 guests with the museum collection, archives, tours, group quilting documentary with written and oral history.

    $38,778 spent
    44% of program spending

  2. Youth enrichment program served over 120 at local schools resulting in improved behavior and grades. College scholarships were also offered through local nonprofits.

    $20,637 spent
    23% of program spending

  3. Served over 1000 through community sponsored events. Partnered programs provided opportunities for learning and a celebration of the Arts.

    $15,641 spent
    18% of program spending

  4. Described in schedule o

    $14,062 spent
    16% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $89,118.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($60k) Expenses 100 ($35k) Net assets 100 ($122k)2018 Revenue 109 ($65k) Expenses 147 ($51k) Net assets 112 ($136k)2019 Revenue 167 ($100k) Expenses 177 ($61k) Net assets 140 ($171k)2020 Revenue 96 ($58k) Expenses 275 ($95k) Net assets 109 ($133k)2021 Revenue 190 ($114k) Expenses 288 ($99k) Net assets 121 ($147k)2022 Revenue 149 ($89k) Expenses 309 ($107k) Net assets 106 ($130k)2023 Revenue 137 ($82k) Expenses 310 ($107k) Net assets 86 ($104k)2024 Revenue 152 ($91k) Expenses 308 ($106k) Net assets 73 ($89k)
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Revenue (152)Expenses (308)Net assets (73)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 2019 to 2020, from $171k to $133k (−22%).

$122k
$136k
$171k
$133k
$147k
$130k
$104k
$89k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

83% of WILEY H BATES LEGACY CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’17
$14k
’18
$39k
’19
−$38k
’20
$14k
’21
−$18k
’22
−$25k
’23
−$15k
’24

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Rose Tasker

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $57.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
2
1
1
1
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WILEY H BATES LEGACY CENTER 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

WILEY H BATES LEGACY CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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

91% 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 WILEY H BATES LEGACY CENTER INC.

91%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 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

100% of WILEY H BATES LEGACY CENTER INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $255 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

WILEY H BATES LEGACY CENTER INC has grown faster than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−17% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like WILEY H BATES LEGACY CENTER 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

The Baltimore American Indian Center73%Newtowne Community Development Corporation72%Historic Medley District Inc72%Groove City Black Heritage & Culture Group Inc72%Center for Islamic Education72%Chestertown Arts League Inc72%Kunta Kinte Celebrations Inc72%The Womans Club of Linthicum Heights Inc72%

Nationally

Lee County Black History Society Inc77%Black Arts & Cultural Center77%Bates School Parent Teacher Organization76%Storytelling Arts Center of Southeast76%Waterville Historical Society76%The Village Inc75%Weirton Area Museum & Cultural Center75%Windmore Center for the Arts Inc75%
05Profile & governance

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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds WILEY H BATES LEGACY CENTER INC?
WILEY H BATES LEGACY CENTER INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,255 to it, the largest being ARUNDEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC ($120,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WILEY H BATES LEGACY CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $132,255 in grants to WILEY H BATES LEGACY CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WILEY H BATES LEGACY CENTER INC?
ARUNDEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WILEY H BATES LEGACY CENTER 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 2017–2024), 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