Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,115,779 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,091,250). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $8.8M
What Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc does
Mission
To preserve our historic theater and bring vibrancy to the community through diverse programming that entertains, educates, and inspires.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We had over 130 live events and 100 movies with attendance greater than 100,000 combined. We continue to give back to the community with both the in focus film education program and community conversations. There were 60 students enrolled in the in focus program through the school year and we held 10 community conversations with attendance greater than 1,000.off cabot and events is venue seating approximately 120 patrons. Located down the street from the cabot theatre, off cabot further compliments the mission of the cabot theatre by bringing live comedy and cultural events in an intimate setting. Off cabot had over 200 events showcasing diversity and other cultural genres.
$6,524,317 spent$6,104,812 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,524,317.
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 $6.0M to $7.9M (+32%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 28% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
John C Soward
Executive director
Board chair
Mark Jaffe
President/chair/director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $502k → $237k.
9 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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
CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 39% · 2019 35% · 2020 58% · 2021 35% · 2022 36% · 2023 39% — 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
50% of CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
61% of CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.6M that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.3M
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 CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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 CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
- CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,115,779 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,091,250). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $4,115,779 in grants to CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
- ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,091,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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 38 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