Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC
ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,846,125 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($603,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc does
Mission
To provide direct legal/business services, educational programs, and affordable arts spaces for artists and arts/cultural organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Variety of legal and business services for artists and arts/cultural organizations, often provided pro bono. These services include providing safe, affordable, permanent artist work spaces where work is made, rehearsed and shared. In fy 2025 more than 500 artists benefitted from these programs.
$765,006 spentof which $311,030 as grants$99,781 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $765,006.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.1M to $7.5M (+252%).
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: 2021 26% · 2022 15% · 2023 20% · 2024 34% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
James Grace Esq
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $54k → $282k.
12 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. 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 & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
67% 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 & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 65% · 2019 48% · 2020 33% · 2021 23% · 2022 17% · 2023 31% — 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
26% of ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
62% of ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON 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 $704k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $549k on record — $10k federal, $539k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
- State Aid Grants$305k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$234k
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 & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Western Avenue Community for the Arts Inc · exempt
- Creative Campus Abc Worcester Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON 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 & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC?
- ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,846,125 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($603,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $1,846,125 in grants to ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $603,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON 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.
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 42 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