Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ARTS LEARNING INC
ARTS LEARNING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,200 to it, the largest being MATTINA R PROCTOR FOUNDATION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $57k
What Arts Learning Inc does
Mission
Arts learning is a thought leader and change agent promoting arts, education policies, practices and partnerships in ma public education, pre k through college. A/l is a non-profit catalyst that accomplishes this mission through strategic objectives which re-imagine school-district models; builds networks/alliances;advocates for strong sequential curricular arts programs/integration;facilitates school/higher education/arts organization partnersips;provides professional development;convenes education leaders and art experts to promote awareness dialogue and community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The new arts teacher mentorship program is a professional learning community geared for non-professional status arts teachers (mentees) to engage around the specific challenges they face. It is a program initiated by the ma department of elementary and secondary education (dese), which contracted with arts|learning to help newer teachers in the arts who were hired over the three years of the covid-19 pandemic.
$35,854 spentof which $80,190 as grants72% of program spendingThe foundational skills progression for theatre and dance program is a project initiated by the ma department of elementary and secondary education (dese) to provide school districts with guidance by identifying how foundational skills can be supported and developed in the arts while aligning to the new framework. Arts|learning is creating this program for pre-k through grade 12.
$11,641 spentof which $15,000 as grants23% of program spendingSchool arts leader program: arts|learning collaborated with lesley university and mass cultural council in re-initiating the school arts leader program which helps educational leaders in the schools create an arts strategic plan to improve arts education in schools. The project was funded by a mass cultural grant received in fy 2022 & fy2023 and completed during fy2023.
Champions of art education advocacy awards: this is an annual ceremony honoring people and organizations for outstanding work in promoting strong arts & education programs in the schools and communities of the commonwealth.
$2,095 spentof which $2,950 as grants4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $49,590.
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 2023 to 2024, from $60k to $113k (+87%).
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.
7% of ARTS LEARNING INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Nancy Moses
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100 → $5k.
From the IRS filings of ARTS LEARNING 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 LEARNING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ARTS LEARNING 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. 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 LEARNING INC has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding ARTS LEARNING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $221k on record.
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$201k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$20k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$250
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 LEARNING 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTS LEARNING 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 LEARNING INC?
- ARTS LEARNING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,200 to it, the largest being MATTINA R PROCTOR FOUNDATION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS LEARNING INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,200 in grants to ARTS LEARNING INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS LEARNING INC?
- MATTINA R PROCTOR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS LEARNING 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 2 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