Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC
ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $909,308 to it, the largest being LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC ($170,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $995k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $909k
- Net assets
- $623k
What Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc does
Mission
To educate, inspire and empower the youth of massachusetts through the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Arts & education programs - more than 60 program offerings for pre-k through 12th graders include: 1)inspiring performances that introduce large audiences to an art form, its cultural context and its applications to school curriculum, 2)hand-on workshops in which small groups of students practice an art form with the guidance of a teaching artist in a focused environment, 3)in-depth residencies, in which a series of progressive, skill-building workshops culminates in a final student performance or project.
$497,355 spent$396,496 earned by the program60% of program spendingExpanded arts access programming - 1)expanding horizons through music - our year long literacy-through-music residency program for homeless and severely disadvantaged children in homeless shelter preschool programs, 2)friday arts at gardner pilot academy-our yearlong residency series of weekly 1-hour arts workshops in multiple disciplines, which provides direct arts instruction to the entire student body of this title I, k-8 boston public school in allston, 3)year-long latin percussion and dance residencies-weekly arts instruction for at-risk students attending predominately hispanic boston public schools in dorchester and mission hill, 4)storieslive-our "storm slam" residency which trains at risk students to write, adapt and perform true stories from their lives for their peers. With story prompts based on the common college
$325,399 spent$324,406 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $822,754.
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 2020 to 2021, from $589k to $812k (+38%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 16% · 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $56k → $113k.
3 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS 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 FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
30% 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 FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 33% · 2019 27% · 2020 33% · 2021 19% · 2022 23% · 2023 31% — 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
47% of ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
85% of ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS 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. $52k 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 FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $101k on record — $45k federal, $56k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$56k
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 FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS 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 FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC?
- ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $909,308 to it, the largest being LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC ($170,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $909,308 in grants to ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC?
- LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS 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.
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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 28 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