· Public charity
Movement Arts Creation Studio Inc
Macs is the essential bridge for local embodied artists to cross into the national sphere - providing an infrastructural entry point for artists to embrace wider visibility, stimulating development and invaluable support for limitless creativity.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BOSTON DANCE THEATER INC | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR ARTS AT THE ARMORY | $25,000 |
| THE NEW DANCE COMPLEX INC | $25,000 |
| JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS | $20,000 |
| BEHEARD WORLD INC | $7,200 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT | $7,000 |
| CIRCUS UP INC | $6,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its 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.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE NEW DANCE COMPLEX INC2× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +15%
JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC3× · 2022–2025 · $53k · revenue +269%- BDBOSTON DANCE THEATER2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +56%
Funded once
BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANYgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $145k · revenue +43%
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.
The heart of Boston Ballet is the human experience. Through our living and breathing art, we forge human connections-between artist and attendee, teacher and trainee, friend and newcomer, one's outer and inner self. Dance history is human…
The organization is dedicated to providing the highest quality dance and performing arts education. the joy, confidence and mutual respect our students gain enhance their communities and continue to guide them throughout their lives.
The Brookline Arts Center is a visual arts center committed to bringing the community meaningful experience in the arts through classes, exhibitions and outreach.
Boston court creates and nurtures innovative, boundary-pushing art that invokes the power of collective imagination to illuminate our common humanity.
Ballet Chicago is a professional track school of ballet that creates exceptional dancers. It makes classical ballet training accessible to all. Its founders Daniel Duell and Patricia Blair carry on George Balanchines legacy by providing…
To enrich the lives of our community through dance education and performance while developing Chicago's native talent pool in a welcoming environment that celebrates multiculturalism & ethnic diversity.
To create ballets of excellence that are stimulating and culturally relevant to diverse audiences; to create an innovative approach to ballet training that welcomes diversity, and ensures unanimous participation and achievement by all…
Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.
To educate children and encourage their enjoyment of Chinese culture through dance.
To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE NEW DANCE COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON DANCE THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CIRCUS UP 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Boston Dance Alliance Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Movement Arts Creation Studio Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Movement Arts Creation Studio Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
- The New Dance Complex Inc: 3% of income from government
- Boston Lyric Opera Company: 1% of income from government
- Boston Center for the Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Jean Appolon Expressions Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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