New Hampshire · Nonprofit
ARTS ALIVE INC
ARTS ALIVE INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $707,452 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($311,052). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $468k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $707k
- Net assets
- $143k
What Arts Alive Inc does
Mission
None
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nova arts: nova arts block is a collaborative arts initiative focused on emerging artists, underrepresented voices, and unexpected juxtapositions. They presented and partnered with creative individuals, organizations, and ideas in the keene area and hosted the annual thing in the spring music festival.
$184,618 spent$84,491 earned by the program63% of program spendingViva bach beterborough: the mission of this project is the celebrate the music of j.s. Bach via an annual bach festival during the beautiful month of october in peterborough, new hampshire! 2024 festival activities included concerts of professional musicians and concerts where community members can perform and engage, and more. The organization also developed a partnership with grand monadnock youth choir.
$69,827 spent$4,251 earned by the program24% of program spendingDiscover monadnock: promotes arts and cultural attractions and events in the monadnock region. The website saw 47,000 unique active users with 256,000 events in 2025. The e-newsletter had 187,473 total sends and 21,216 total opens. The arts alive e-newsletter had 46,092 total sends and 9,490 total opens.
$22,187 spent$12,070 earned by the program8% of program spendingArts leadership summit: attended by 13 arts leaders in the mondadnock region, all of whom reported on evaluationsthat they connected with other arts leaders they'd never met, have actionable items to follow up on with potential collaborators, and leared about new-to-them resourcesarts & economic prosperity: 115 individuals accessed the arts and economic prosperity report for the monadnock region, published in 2023, which provides data on the economic impact of arts nonprofits and their audiences.arts ambassadors: 41 individuals are registered as arts ambassadors and have participated in calls to action to contact representatives about arts advocacy topics.discover monadnock arts: promotes arts and cultural attractions and events in the monadnock region. The website saw 47,000 unique active users with 256,000 events for 2024. The e-newsletter had 178,079 total sends and 68,241 total opens. For the first time a printed brochure was distributed at tourist welcome centers across new england - the website traffic for the distribution period went from 12,000 the previous year to 43,000 this year.elevate the arts fest: an accessible arts festival in keene that manifests our vision of an…
$17,898 spentof which $4,500 as grants$61,786 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $294,530.
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.
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 $16k to $107k (+573%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 4% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of ARTS ALIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $51k → $79k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 ARTS ALIVE 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
ARTS ALIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 ARTS ALIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 66% · 2019 44% · 2020 66% · 2021 45% · 2022 58% · 2023 51% — 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
75% of ARTS ALIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
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
64% of ARTS ALIVE INC'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 $256k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $452k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
ARTS ALIVE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ARTS ALIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $84k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
- Department of Agriculture$34k
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 ARTS ALIVE 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.
In New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTS ALIVE INC: 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 ARTS ALIVE INC?
- ARTS ALIVE INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $707,452 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($311,052). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARTS ALIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $707,452 in grants to ARTS ALIVE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS ALIVE INC?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $311,052 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS ALIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 15 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