· Private foundation
Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMERSON COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| ARTS EMERSON | $15,000 |
| HUNTINGTON THEATER | $5,000 |
| CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
EMERSON COLLEGE7× · 2018–2024 · $419k · revenue +38%
BOSTON BALLET INC5× · 2018–2022 · $41k · revenue +36%
BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $20k
- BCBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +31%
- CSCHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +20%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Boston court creates and nurtures innovative, boundary-pushing art that invokes the power of collective imagination to illuminate our common humanity.
Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The BPO was formed in 1979 to provide opportunities for an evolving community of amateur student and professional players to perform together present challenging classical repertoire & enhance the publics awareness & understanding of this…
Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.
Speakeasy produces intimate, entertaining plays and musicals that are new to boston and compel thoughtful conversation. we champion new talent and future arts leaders, alongside a diverse community of experienced local theatre…
The organization operates america's first permanent period orchestra and chorus which reach local, national, and international audiences through a subscription series, touring engagements, recordings, and broadcasts.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…
To broaden experience, knowledge and enjoyment of every style of new music by embracing the full range of today's compositional activity and giving voice to music that might otherwise not be heard.
The bostonian society sustains the old state house and its collections to explore the vital debates about self-government that were sparked here during boston's revolutionary era and that still animate our civic life today.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 25 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.
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO) ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds THE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds ZUMIX INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RECORD COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Commonwealth Shakespeare Co Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON JEWISH FILM INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children's Services of Roxbury Inc: 32% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 26% of income from government
- Zumix Inc: 8% of income from government
- The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
- Emerson College: 0% of income from government
- The Record Company Inc: 0% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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