Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ARTS CONNECT INTERNATIONAL INC
ARTS CONNECT INTERNATIONAL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $938,750 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($745,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $782k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $939k
- Net assets
- $796k
What Arts Connect International Inc does
Mission
Growing creative justice through arts and culture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The cultural equity incubator is a creative home for boston's small and mid-sized organizations and collectives led by, and for, queer, trans, 2- spirit, disabled,black, indigenous, and people of color (qt2sdbipoc) arts communities. At the cei, we work to equitably share space, governance, networks, and resources to support one another in actualizing our creative efforts.
$384,711 spentof which $81,200 as grants$30,525 earned by the program81% of program spendingThe transformative research collective is a collective of artists, academics, and community members who generate research by and for community, grounded in practice and lived experience, as part of building collective liberation. Our research is rooted in transdisciplinarity, intersectional justice, creative justice, arts-based methodologies, lived experience, embodied learning and healing, and a critical addressing of power.
$13,657 spent3% of program spendingAci runs a fee for service consulting practice that focuses on intersectional, anti-oppression services. This includes but is not limited to workshops, diagnostics, strategic planning, leadership shifts, board design, and tailored training.
$30,940 spent$46,250 earned by the program6% of program spendingRecloaking: recircling seeds a portal for sharing traditional ecological knowledge (tek) to deepen relational, life-sustaining culture in public parks of jamaica plain and turners falls. In collaboration with elizabeth james perry and mica rose, the program carries forward indigenous science and history, somatic practices, cornhusk weaving, candlemaking, altarbuilding, and strategies for collective action including civic engagement, power mapping, and direct action. Cultural equity learning community is an online learning community open to arts and culture leaders committed to building intersectional racial equity in the sector. The celc includes a go at your own pace two- unitcourse with complimentary wrap-around supports. Arts in the antilles
$46,698 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $476,006.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $319k to $770k (+141%).
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: 2022 1% · 2023 29% · 2024 52% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of ARTS CONNECT INTERNATIONAL 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. 2 of the last 6 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
2018 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $18k → $245k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 CONNECT INTERNATIONAL 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 CONNECT INTERNATIONAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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: 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 79% · 2022 94% — 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
97% of ARTS CONNECT INTERNATIONAL INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $157k 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.
Against its field
ARTS CONNECT INTERNATIONAL INC holds deeper cash reserves 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 CONNECT INTERNATIONAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $311k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$249k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$58k
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$4k
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 CONNECT INTERNATIONAL 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 CONNECT INTERNATIONAL 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 CONNECT INTERNATIONAL INC?
- ARTS CONNECT INTERNATIONAL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $938,750 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($745,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS CONNECT INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $938,750 in grants to ARTS CONNECT INTERNATIONAL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS CONNECT INTERNATIONAL INC?
- BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $745,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS CONNECT INTERNATIONAL 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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