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· Public charity

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $66,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $440,450 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $374,350 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CELEBRATION BARN$7,500
FRACTURED ATLAS$7,500
KULTURALLY LIT INC$7,500
BRAIN ARTS ORGANIZATION$7,500
QUEERLECTIVE INC$7,500
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST$7,500
WICN PUBLIC RADIO$7,500
MILTON ARTISTS' GUILD$7,500
MILDCOAST MUSIC ACADEMY$6,100
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cultural Alliance of Medfield Dba Bellforge Arts Center; 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 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. 18 of the 19 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINCARTS 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 CENTERGREATER ASHMONT MAIN STREET INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER ASHMONT MAIN STREET INCBAMS FEST INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBAMS FEST INCKULTURALLY LIT INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureKULTURALLY LIT INCMILTON ARTISTS GUILD INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMILTON ARTISTS GUILD INCBRAIN ARTS ORGANIZATION INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureBRAIN ARTS ORGANIZATION INCCelebration Barn Theater: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCelebration Barn TheaterQueerlective Inc: $7,500 · Arts & CultureQueerlective IncFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS 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…UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $7,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUS…WICN PUBLIC RADIO INC: $7,500 · OtherWICN PUBLIC RADIO INCMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationBUILDING AUDACITY: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LOOP LAB INC: $10,000 · Employment
Arts & Culture$101,100Other$35,000Education$10,000Youth Development$10,000Employment$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNTA FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBUILDING AUDACITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARTS ALIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetBAMS FEST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetINTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 budgetCelebration Barn Theater: $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetQueerlective Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetWICN PUBLIC RADIO INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidcoast Music Academy: $6,100 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Arts Strategies Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Arts Strategies Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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