Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR INC
CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,716 to it, the largest being THE APPLIED MATERIALS FOUNDATION ($27,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $78k
What Cape Ann Plein Air Inc does
Mission
Cape ann plein air's (capa) mission is to preserve and promote cape ann's legacy as the birthplace of american plein air painting, and enhance our local economy. This is made possible through the close collaboration of committed supporters from across the region -- businesses, regional arts and cultural organizations, and the cape ann communities of gloucester, rockport, essex and manchester-by-the sea -- working with capa organizers to offer a robust, weeklong program of painting competitions, exhibitions and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization hosts an artist competition to raise awareness of plein air painting.
$31,566 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,566.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $42k to $61k (+43%).
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.
53% of CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $13k → $1k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 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
CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 82% — 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
CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3k
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 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 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
99%
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 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 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 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR INC?
- CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,716 to it, the largest being THE APPLIED MATERIALS FOUNDATION ($27,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $38,716 in grants to CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR INC?
- THE APPLIED MATERIALS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 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