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20 Summers Inc

20 Summers Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $726,846 to it, the largest being FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC ($242,501). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$547k
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$727k
Net assets
$291k
20/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What 20 Summers Inc does

Mission

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to foster public engagement with the arts & to foster creation of art.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Twenty Summers incubates and presents original work in the spirit of the Hathorne Barn in Provincetown, Cape Cod. We host dozens of events every year, mostly during our annual festival each May and June. We also bring artists from all over the world to Provincetown as resident fellows, and provide artist awards as well as institutional support for the creation of original work.

    $317,584 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $317,584.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($197k) Expenses 100 ($66k) Net assets 100 ($160k)2018 Revenue 81 ($160k) Expenses 171 ($112k) Net assets 130 ($208k)2019 Revenue 53 ($105k) Expenses 206 ($135k) Net assets 111 ($177k)2020 Revenue 32 ($64k) Expenses 171 ($112k) Net assets 81 ($129k)2021 Revenue 127 ($250k) Expenses 349 ($229k) Net assets 96 ($154k)2022 Revenue 142 ($280k) Expenses 529 ($347k) Net assets 54 ($87k)2023 Revenue 260 ($513k) Expenses 576 ($378k) Net assets 139 ($222k)2024 Revenue 216 ($427k) Expenses 744 ($488k) Net assets 100 ($161k)2025 Revenue 277 ($547k) Expenses 635 ($417k) Net assets 182 ($291k)
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Revenue (277)Expenses (635)Net assets (182)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $166k to $309k (+86%).

$160k
$208k
$178k
$143k
$169k
$166k
$309k
$246k
$370k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2022 8% · 2023 10% · 2024 5% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of 20 Summers Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$132k
’17
$47k
’18
−$30k
’19
−$48k
’20
$21k
’21
−$68k
’22
$135k
’23
−$62k
’24
$130k
’25
10
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

20212022202320242025
Listed48888
Joined·+4+2+3+0
No longer listed·0230
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $17k → $146k.

8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of 20 Summers Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

20 Summers Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 20 Summers Inc.

33%
largest funder
48%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 45% · 2019 83% · 2020 60% · 2021 44% · 2022 21% · 2023 41% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of 20 Summers Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

67% of 20 Summers Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

20 Summers Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding 20 Summers Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record — $10k federal, $50k state.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k
State$50k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$50k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 13%Fundraising 11%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

82%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds 20 Summers Inc?
20 Summers Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $726,846 to it, the largest being FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC ($242,501). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does 20 Summers Inc have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $726,846 in grants to 20 Summers Inc, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of 20 Summers Inc?
FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC is the largest funder on record, with $242,501 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like 20 Summers Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing