Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BROOKLINE FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ART
BROOKLINE FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ART (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being EUGENE M LANG FOUNDATION ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $70k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $60k
What Brookline Friends of Performing Art does
Mission
The mission of the Brookline Friends of Performing Arts (fopa) is to support the educational activities of the performing arts department at brookline high school (bhs) through: fundraising and grantmaking for needs and aspirations identified by the bhs performing arts department faculty and leadership; increasing visibility of the performing arts education at bhs and its role in the public schools of brookline through outreach and communication; and strenghtening community through volunteer engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Support the educational activities of the performing arts department at brookline high school (bhs) through: fundraising and grantmaking for needs and aspirations identified by the bhs performing arts department faculty and leadership
$10,731 spentof which $6,338 as grants27% of program spendingSupport the educational activities of the performing arts department at brookline high school (bhs) through: fundraising and grantmaking for needs and aspirations identified by the bhs performing arts department faculty and leadership.
$29,569 spentof which $29,569 as grants73% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,300.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $30k to $60k (+97%).
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.
98% of BROOKLINE FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ART’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BROOKLINE FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ART’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.
Where its funders are
BROOKLINE FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ART draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
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
BROOKLINE FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ART runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BROOKLINE FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ART
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 BROOKLINE FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ART: 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 BROOKLINE FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ART?
- BROOKLINE FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ART (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being EUGENE M LANG FOUNDATION ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROOKLINE FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ART have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,000 in grants to BROOKLINE FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ART, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLINE FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ART?
- EUGENE M LANG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKLINE FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ART 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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