· Public charity
Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc
To provide direct legal/business services, educational programs, and affordable arts spaces for artists and arts/cultural organizations.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STIGGITY STACKZ WORLDWIDE INC | $109,850 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,008 |
| ROXBURY DISTRICT INCREMENT FINANCING PROJECT | $21,850 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,759 |
| REFUGE LOWELL | $16,846 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,036 |
| ART IN THE PARK | $13,066 |
| ARTEVERYWHERE | $10,989 |
| WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| #ARTSTAYSHERE COALITION | $8,593 |
| BATTLE OF THE BIOTECH BANDS | $7,952 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $407k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BOBATTLE OF THE BIOTECH BANDS5× · 2018–2023 · $832k
- NENEW ENGLAND MUSICIANS RESOURCE FUND INC2× · 2021–2022 · $407k · revenue -42%
- AIART IN THE PARK7× · 2017–2025 · $187k
Funded once
- TRTHE RECORD COMPANY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +39%
- RDROXBURY DISTRIC INCREMENT FINANCING PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $43k
- ACAREA CODE ART FAIRone grant, 2021 · $31k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Western Avenue Community for the Arts Inc: 12% of income from government
- Makanda Project Organization Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Record Company Inc: 2% of income from government
- Dunamis Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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