Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA
ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,583 to it, the largest being SAMUEL H KRESS FOUNDATION ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $482k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Art Libraries Society of North America does
Mission
The Art Libraries Society of North America exists to foster excellence in art and design librarianship and image management.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Convention - the annual convention consists of meeting, networking, and sharing ideas on art in person.
$256,113 spent$363,534 earned by the program81% of program spendingGrantmaking - reaching out to future art librarians through numerous scholarship awards. Recognizing excellence in the field through awards for research, service, and publication.
$47,452 spentof which $47,452 as grants15% of program spendingPublications - publishing substantive articles of a practical as well as scholarly nature through publications, such as art documentation, arlis/na reviews, occasional papers, and online publications.
$14,449 spent$7,000 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $318,014.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $1.0M (−25%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Amy Stark
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $4k → $30k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA’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
ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA
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.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA?
- ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,583 to it, the largest being SAMUEL H KRESS FOUNDATION ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $73,583 in grants to ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA?
- SAMUEL H KRESS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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