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National Arts Strategies Inc

To educate, strengthen and support the management and leadership of the nonprofit arts and culture field by offering combinations of coaching, executive education and grant awards with the assistance of funders.

$440k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Arts & Culture$111kEmployment$10kYouth Development$10kCivil Rights$10kCommunity Improvement$10kEducation$8kReligion$8k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $66,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $440,450 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $374,350 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$7,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CELEBRATION BARN$7,500
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST$7,500
WICN PUBLIC RADIO$7,500
FRACTURED ATLAS$7,500
KULTURALLY LIT INC$7,500
MILTON ARTISTS' GUILD$7,500
BRAIN ARTS ORGANIZATION$7,500
QUEERLECTIVE INC$7,500
MILDCOAST MUSIC ACADEMY$6,100
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD: $10k → 7%THE LOOP LAB INC: $10k → 8%BUILDING AUDACITY: $10k → 10%WICN PUBLIC RADIO: $8k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST: $8k → 12%MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 12%GREATER ASHMONT MAIN STREET: $10k → 16%FRACTURED ATLAS: $8k → 17%INTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC: $10k → 9%JUNTA FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION: $10k → 12%MILTON ARTISTS' GUILD: $8k → 10%BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER: $10k → 11%QUEERLECTIVE INC: $8k → 7%ARTS ALIVE INC: $10k → 9%MILDCOAST MUSIC ACADEMY: $6k → 11%CELEBRATION BARN: $8k → 13%BAMS FEST INC: $10k → 16%KULTURALLY LIT INC: $8k → 12%BRAIN ARTS ORGANIZATION: $8k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Guild of Boston Artists Inc
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2
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Recreation & Sports
4
Artnoir Inc

ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…

Arts & Culture
5
Artists Association of Nantucket Inc

To foster the visual arts on nantucket, to promote, support and encourage the work of nantucket artists, providing educational programs in the arts, preserving the legacy of nantucket artists, and to create a vibrant arts community.

Arts & Culture
6
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Boston Comic Arts Foundation Ltd

BCAF believes in the power of comics to inspire educate and bring people together. BCF helps promote spaces for both creators and readers to find one another exchange ideas and grow as a community.

Arts & Culture
8
Mass Design Art & Technology Institute Inc

Massachusetts Design, Art, and Technology Institute (DATMA) presents impactful contemporary art at the intersection of design, art, and technology, combined with related community learning experiences, to spark creativity, collaboration,…

Arts & Culture
9
Fort Point Arts Community Inc

The fort points art community builds cultural vibrancy in boston by cultivating an empowered community of artists, organizations and supporters.

Arts & Culture
10
Actors Company of Natick

The Actors Company of Natick ACON creates theatre with purpose. At ACON, we celebrate artists and challenge community perspectives through equitable, professional and accessible productions.

Arts & Culture
11
The Black Literacy and Arts Collaborative Project
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12
Art Museum New Bedford Inc

New Bedford Art Museum is dedicated to engaging a diverse audience in relevant exhibitions, exemplary education, and creative experiences as a vital innovative center for the arts.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cultural Alliance of Medfield Dba Bellforge Arts Center and the most unlike its peers is Building Audacity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER ASHMONT MAIN STREET INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER ASHMONT MAIN STREET INCBRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINCBAMS FEST INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBAMS FEST INCARTS ALIVE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureARTS ALIVE INCCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTERKULTURALLY LIT INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureKULTURALLY LIT INCBRAIN ARTS ORGANIZATION INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureBRAIN ARTS ORGANIZATION INCMILTON ARTISTS GUILD INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureMILTON ARTISTS GUILD INCCelebration Barn Theater — $7,500 · Arts & CultureCelebration Barn TheaterFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCQueerlective Inc — $7,500 · Arts & CultureQueerlective IncMidcoast Music Academy — $6,100 · Arts & CultureMidcoast Music AcademyJUNTA FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION INC — $10,000 · OtherJUNTA FOR PROGRESSIVE A…INTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC — $10,000 · OtherINTEMPO ORGANIZATION IN…WICN PUBLIC RADIO INC — $7,500 · OtherWICN PUBLIC RADIO INCUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS — $7,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUS…BUILDING AUDACITY — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationTHE LOOP LAB INC — $10,000 · Employment
Arts & Culture$101,100Other$35,000Youth Development$10,000Education$10,000Employment$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUNTA FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBUILDING AUDACITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBAMS FEST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetARTS ALIVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetINTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOOP LAB INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKULTURALLY LIT INC — $7,500 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetMILTON ARTISTS GUILD INC — $7,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWICN PUBLIC RADIO INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCelebration Barn Theater — $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQueerlective Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetMidcoast Music Academy — $6,100 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Barr FoundationThe Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA17.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Barr Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization National Arts Strategies Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Junta for Progressive Action Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Building Audacity — 24% of income from government
  • Intempo Organization Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Wicn Public Radio Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc — 1% of income from government
  • Bams Fest Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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