Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON ART REVIEW INC
BOSTON ART REVIEW INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,037 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($175,550). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $276k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $414k
- Net assets
- $139k
What Boston Art Review Inc does
Mission
Arts Programming
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization produced two print publications dedicated to looking back and looking ahead. Issue 10 catalogues overlooked stories from Boston's art scene, from Indigenous histories to untold stories of Boston's queer scenes. In Issue 11: Emerge, we focused on looking ahead. A section of the publication was dedicated to new writers edited by our emerging art writing fellows. The publication is distributed across New England to an audience of students, artists, scholars, and community members.
$98,397 spent$40,300 earned by the program92% of program spendingThe organization was commissioned by Isenberg Projects to curate and produce two temporary exhibitions inside a downtown public space. We commissioned work by two artists and created 8 workshops and programs that were free and open to all with events specific to younger audiences.
$6,690 spent$8,000 earned by the program6% of program spendingPresented in partnership with Praise Shadows Art Gallery, the program is designed to support young writers ages 18-21 who are based in Boston and interested in expanding their knowledge of the city's contemporary art community. During the paid program, fellows are given the opportunity to learn from leaders within the publishing and gallery field through a series of workshops before gaining hands-on experience writing articles, conducting artist interviews, and authoring exhibition texts. The program is the only one of its kind in the country.
$2,250 spent2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $107,337.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $60k to $146k (+145%).
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: 2023 5% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of BOSTON ART REVIEW 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. 1 of the last 3 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $23k → $97k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 BOSTON ART REVIEW 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
BOSTON ART REVIEW INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 BOSTON ART REVIEW INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 89% · 2022 50% · 2023 77% — 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.
Where its funders are
81% of BOSTON ART REVIEW 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. $186k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BOSTON ART REVIEW INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding BOSTON ART REVIEW INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$6k
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 BOSTON ART REVIEW 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
77%
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 BOSTON ART REVIEW 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 BOSTON ART REVIEW INC?
- BOSTON ART REVIEW INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,037 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($175,550). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSTON ART REVIEW INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $414,037 in grants to BOSTON ART REVIEW INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON ART REVIEW INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $175,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON ART REVIEW 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 8 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