WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A510

Classification

2000

Street

PO BOX 423

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE MISSION IS IMPLEMENTED THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT, INTERPRETATION AND CARE OF ART COLLECTIONS; CREATION OF ORIGINAL AND EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITIONS; AND PRESENTATION OF INTERPRETIVE LECTURES, CONCERTS, ART INSTRUCTION AND OTHER PROGRAMS TO ENSURE THAT VISITORS GAIN A BETTER APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE FINE ARTS. THE MUSEUM ACTIVELY COLLECTS WORKS OF ART IN THE FIELDS OF AMERICAN ART, WORLD CULTURES, AND ART OF THE REGION. ACCREDITED BY THE AMERICAN ALLIANCE OF MUSEUMS, ADMISSION TO THE MUSEUM IS FREE AND ITS COLLECTION INCLUDES OVER 6,500 WORKS OF ART. OVER EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, HAGERSTOWN NATIVE, ANNA BRUGH SINGER AND HER HUSBAND, NOTED AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER, WILLIAM HENRY SINGER, ESTABLISHED AN ART MUSEUM AND GAVE IT TO THE COMMUNITY WITH THE PROVISO THAT ADMISSION BE FREE IN PERPETUITY. THEIR LARGESSE AND THE GENEROSITY OF MANY SUBSEQUENT COLLECTORS BUILT A REMARKABLE ART COLLECTION IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.

  Expenses $314,756

• THE PRESENTATION OF ART COLLECTIONS, AND ASSOCIATED INTERPRETIVE ACTIVITIES REQUIRES THE MAINTENANCE OF A SPECIALIZED AND ARCHITECTURALLY SIGNIFICANT BUILDING AND GROUNDS. THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PUBLIC TO ENCOUNTER HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT WORKS OF ART IN A BEAUTIFUL SETTING, AND WITH SAFETY AND SECURITY ARE IMPORTANT VALUES OF THE WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. THE WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HAS AN ENDURING COMMITMENT TO ARTS EDUCATION AND TO THE SUPPORT OF REGIONAL ARTISTS. THE MUSEUM REGULARLY OFFERS STUDIO ART COURSES, ART HISTORICAL LECTURES, CONCERTS, AND EXHIBITIONS FROM ITS PERMANENT COLLECTION AND TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS.

  Expenses $771,433

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $316,154 · Revenue $30,456

• Expenses $105,870

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $3,679,802

  Expenses

  $1,816,809

  Contributions

  $2,629,253

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $5,745,787

  Expenses

  $2,009,434

  Contributions

  $4,419,773

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,947,033

  Expenses

  $1,796,561

  Contributions

  $1,202,455

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,933,209

  Expenses

  $1,519,447

  Assets (EOY)

  $25,151,271

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,503,838

  Expenses

  $1,504,358

  Assets (EOY)

  $24,122,903

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,962,743

  Expenses

  $1,507,961

  Assets (EOY)

  $21,307,695

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,960,655

  Expenses

  $1,477,881

  Assets (EOY)

  $21,331,510

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,115,420

  Expenses

  $1,403,876

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,352,198

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,948,365

  Expenses

  $1,276,049

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,569,727

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,593,031

  Expenses

  $1,332,392

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,774,899

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,935,999

  Expenses

  $1,263,950

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,831,054

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,372,512

  Expenses

  $1,268,170

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,307,244

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INCORPORATED

  $47,793

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INCORPORATED

  $34,900

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INCORPORATED

  $15,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND

  $14,938

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING

  $7,255

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING

  $6,597

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING

  $5,850

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST

  $5,500

  2024 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST

  $5,500

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

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