Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Inc
Annapolis, MD · EIN 52-1821633. Reported 154 grants totalling $3,602,358 to 59 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Inc, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 59 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 76% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $14,750. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $28,500; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $118,050. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts Inc | Annapolis, MD | $303,550 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Chesapeake Arts Center Inc | Brooklyn Park, MD | $260,350 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Annapolis Opera Incorporated | Annapolis, MD | $228,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Annapolis Film Festival Inc | Annapolis, MD | $213,250 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Annapolis Symphony Orchestra Association Inc | Annapolis, MD | $190,175 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Ballet Theatre of Maryland Incorporated | Annapolis, MD | $158,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Banneker-Douglass Museum Foundation Inc | Annapolis, MD | $148,400 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc | Annapolis, MD | $137,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Annapolis Chorale Inc | Annapolis, MD | $131,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Maryland Federation of Art Inc | Annapolis, MD | $113,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Chesapeake Arts Center | Brooklyn Park, MD | $110,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Classic Theatre of Maryland | Annapolis, MD | $107,900 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| London Town Foundation Inc | Edgewater, MD | $100,200 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Chesapeake Childrens Museum Inc | Annapolis, MD | $96,050 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra | Annapolis, MD | $67,400 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Captain Avery Museum Inc | Shady Side, MD | $65,850 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Childrens Theatre of Annapolis | Annapolis, MD | $61,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Compass Rose Studio Theater | Annapolis, MD | $56,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Annapolis Shakespeare Company | Annapolis, MD | $55,900 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Performing Arts Center for African Cultures | Bowie, MD | $54,398 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Creating Communities | Annapolis, MD | $51,400 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Arts Lab of South County Inc | Tracys Lndg, MD | $50,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Historic Annapolis Inc | Annapolis, MD | $49,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre Inc | Annapolis, MD | $48,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hammond Harwood House Assoc Inc | Annapolis, MD | $46,675 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| 21ST Century Education Foundation Inc | Annapolis, MD | $44,620 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Childrens Theatre of Annapolis Inc | Annapolis, MD | $44,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Angelwing Project Inc | Linthicum, MD | $43,050 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Capital City Cultural Arts District | Annapolis, MD | $42,240 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Maryland Cultural Conference Center Inc | Annapolis, MD | $39,650 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Naptown Philharmonic Orchestra Inc | Edgewater, MD | $39,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Talent Machine Company Inc | Davidsonville, MD | $36,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Annapolis Arts Alliance Inc | Annapolis, MD | $33,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Greater Annapolis Ballet | Annapolis, MD | $31,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Future History Now | Annapolis, MD | $29,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Anne Arundel County Public School | Annapolis, MD | $26,850 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| World Artists Experiences Inc | Arnold, MD | $26,600 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Colonial Players Incorporated | Annapolis, MD | $26,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| St Johns College | Annapolis, MD | $23,900 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Performing Arts Association of Linthicum Inc | Linthicum, MD | $22,100 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Arundel Vocal Arts Society Incorporated | Arnold, MD | $19,750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fiddle Puppet Dancers Inc | Crownsville, MD | $19,200 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Anne Arundel County Trust for Preservation Inc | Annapolis, MD | $16,450 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Historic Annapolis Inc | Annapolis, MD | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Encore Creativity Corporation Encore Creativity for Older Adults | Washington, DC | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| All Childrens Chorus of Annapolis Inc | Annapolis, MD | $13,050 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Performing Arts Center for African Cultures | Laurel, MD | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Creative and Performing Arts of South County Inc | Tracys Lndg, MD | $8,350 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of Hancocks Resolution Inc | Pasadena, MD | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Anne Arundel Community Concert Association Inc | Severna Park, MD | $7,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bay Winds Band Inc | Fulton, MD | $7,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pasadena Theatre Company | Glen Burnie, MD | $7,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ballet Institute for the Arts | Tracys Lndg, MD | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Annapolis Chamber Players | Annapolis, MD | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mekis Tamure Polynesian Arts Group Inc | Brooklyn Park, MD | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Musical Autist | Severn, MD | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Patuxent Lapidary Guild Inc | Millersville, MD | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Providence of Maryland Inc | Millersville, MD | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Galesville Community Center Organization Inc | Galesville, MD | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
40 of 59 (68%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Chesapeake Arts Center
ARTS EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 of 59 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 42 | $1,166,220 | $15,750 |
| 2021 | 44 | $824,698 | $14,000 |
| 2022 | 32 | $828,250 | $14,000 |
| 2023 | 36 | $783,190 | $16,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $14,750 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Maryland.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 35 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 2666 Riva Road, Annapolis, MD, 21401.
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