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Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director

Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $413,837 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($130,450). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$867k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$414k
Net assets
$558k
10/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director does

Mission

Education in and community development of the arts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Educational programs conducted through various programs, classes and camps for children and adults in the areas of art, music, drama, and crafts.

    $752,273 spent$670,055 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $752,273.

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 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($630k) Net assets 100 ($845k)2018 Revenue 86 ($920k) Expenses 102 ($642k) Net assets 132 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 70 ($748k) Expenses 113 ($714k) Net assets 137 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 32 ($348k) Expenses 109 ($687k) Net assets 96 ($815k)2021 Revenue 86 ($919k) Expenses 129 ($815k) Net assets 109 ($919k)2022 Revenue 75 ($804k) Expenses 138 ($870k) Net assets 101 ($854k)2023 Revenue 86 ($920k) Expenses 148 ($934k) Net assets 99 ($840k)2024 Revenue 78 ($836k) Expenses 155 ($975k) Net assets 83 ($702k)2025 Revenue 81 ($867k) Expenses 161 ($1.0M) Net assets 66 ($558k)
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Revenue (81)Expenses (161)Net assets (66)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 2017 to 2018, from $882k to $1.4M (+56%).

$882k
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$981k
$1.1M
$943k
$785k
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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: 2017 17% · 2021 21% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

21% of Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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.

$441k
’17
$277k
’18
$34k
’19
−$340k
’20
$104k
’21
−$66k
’22
−$14k
’23
−$140k
’24
−$144k
’25
4.6
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.

Chief executive

Tom Formicola

Executive Director

Board chair

John Oliver

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed171815131816111515
Joined·+4+1+3+6+3+1+6+2
No longer listed·34515622
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $61k → $26k.

9 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director’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

Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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

80% 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 Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director.

32%
largest funder
55%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 29% · 2019 71% · 2020 64% · 2021 32% · 2022 33% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.

“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

30% of Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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

78% of Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $91k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states.

MA
IN
MD
DE
NC

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. $323k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director's revenue fell 19% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 10%Fundraising 15%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director?
Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $413,837 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($130,450). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $413,837 in grants to Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $130,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director 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 19 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