Maryland · Nonprofit
WORLD ARTS FOCUS
WORLD ARTS FOCUS (Maryland) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,874,941 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($453,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What World Arts Focus does
Mission
World Arts Focus dba joe's movement emporium is a center for dance, movement and performance traditions from around the world that utilizes the arts as a vehicle for progressive education, workforce training and community-based economic growth. The organization serves approximately 70,000 individuals annually through classes, performances, youth development and artist services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Arts education: joe's offers year-round out-of-school time programming after-school through club joe's and over the summer through camp joe's, providing structured homework help, creative play and arts activities for elementary-aged youth. We provide early access to arts enrichment for youth, as well as affordable child care for working parents in the region.
$900,171 spent$642,571 earned by the program30% of program spendingTheater tech program/creativeworks: recognizing the dual need for qualified employees and stable employment for the local economy and the area's underserved young people, joe's launched the creativeworks program in 2008. Participants are trained in theatre tech and digital media, as well as learn life skills to achieve post-secondary success.
$704,519 spent$697,709 earned by the program24% of program spendingCommunity programs
$809,839 spent27% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$573,579 spent$69,721 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,988,108.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.5M to $2.2M (−12%).
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 12% · 2018 11% · 2019 19% · 2020 27% · 2021 52% · 2022 33% · 2023 34% · 2024 32% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of WORLD ARTS FOCUS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Brooke Kidd
Executive director, ex-off
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $59k → $384k.
9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 WORLD ARTS FOCUS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
WORLD ARTS FOCUS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
69% 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 WORLD ARTS FOCUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 78% · 2019 63% · 2020 33% · 2021 44% · 2022 34% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
14% of WORLD ARTS FOCUS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of WORLD ARTS FOCUS'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 $923k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $952k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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
WORLD ARTS FOCUS has grown faster than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WORLD ARTS FOCUS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record — $3.6M federal, $204k state.
- Department of Labor$3.4M
- National Endowment for the Arts$190k
- Grant$204k
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 WORLD ARTS FOCUS
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD ARTS FOCUS: 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 WORLD ARTS FOCUS?
- WORLD ARTS FOCUS (Maryland) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,874,941 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($453,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WORLD ARTS FOCUS have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,874,941 in grants to WORLD ARTS FOCUS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD ARTS FOCUS?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $453,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD ARTS FOCUS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing