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ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC

ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,205 to it, the largest being RUSSELL-DAVIDSON FOUNDATION ($31,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$688k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$87k
Net assets
$765k
3/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Academy of Performing Arts Inc does

Mission

The academy of performing arts is an innovative theatrical venue for hands-on learning, creativity, and entertainment for the cape cod community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Performing arts classes, theatre productions, and programs open to the public.

    $141,698 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $141,698.

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 ($513k) Expenses 100 ($571k) Net assets 100 ($64k)2018 Revenue 85 ($435k) Expenses 87 ($498k) Net assets 3 ($2k)2019 Revenue 65 ($335k) Expenses 60 ($342k) Net assets -8 ($-5087)2020 Revenue 33 ($168k) Expenses 30 ($170k) Net assets -11 ($-6858)2021 Revenue 94 ($484k) Expenses 36 ($205k) Net assets 422 ($272k)2022 Revenue 44 ($226k) Expenses 44 ($250k) Net assets 384 ($248k)2023 Revenue 115 ($588k) Expenses 53 ($302k) Net assets 828 ($534k)2024 Revenue 84 ($431k) Expenses 72 ($414k) Net assets 854 ($551k)2025 Revenue 134 ($688k) Expenses 83 ($474k) Net assets 1186 ($765k)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (83)Net assets (1186)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 $248k to $585k (+136%).

$483k
$427k
$407k
$392k
$272k
$248k
$585k
$640k
$835k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

33% of ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$58k
’17
−$62k
’18
−$7k
’19
−$2k
’20
$279k
’21
−$25k
’22
$286k
’23
$17k
’24
$214k
’25
2.7
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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.

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Listed1211119109111110
Joined·+4+8+0+1+3+3+0+3
No longer listed·58204104
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $27k → $8k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS 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

ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

36%
largest funder
56%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 34% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 51% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

0% of ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

63% of ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $156k on record.

State$156k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$154k
  • (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$1k

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.

Organizations like ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
40%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC?
ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,205 to it, the largest being RUSSELL-DAVIDSON FOUNDATION ($31,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $87,205 in grants to ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC?
RUSSELL-DAVIDSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS 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 11 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing