Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,549,064 to it, the largest being THE JOHN L MCGRAW AND MARJORIE P MCGRAW CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($536,400). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc does
Mission
To supply the community with an array of programs that encourage individual artistic development, exploration, and experimentation, and to increase awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the creative process by facilitating communication and interaction among artists and between artists and the public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Participation: the organization serves as a community resource fostering participation by its citizens in all areas of programs, including theater, music, visual arts, education and special events. The organization encourages community members of all ages to engage with the center. This engagement might include participation as a performer, crew member, volunteer, teacher, student, visual artist, member or donor.
$1,946,340 spent100% of program spendingCreation: at the core of the organization's programs is the creation of multi-disciplinary performance and art programs and events to be shared with and enjoyed by the community. Annually the organization produces six to eight major theatrical productions, six to ten black box or experimental theatrical productions, dozens of special events including musical concerts, festivals, film screenings, staged readings and workshops. Approximately twelve to fourteen visual art shows are hung in the gallery annually and students in the visual arts education programs create original works on a regular basis. Over a dozen annual collaborations with other local arts and community organizations result in a variety of additional programs at the center.
Education: the organization offers a wide variety of multi-disciplinary educational opportunities. Performance education programs include instruction for acting, dancing, singing and improvisation. The organization also offers robust education programs for the creation of new work including songwriting, playwriting and theater tech. Visual arts education is broad based with classes designated for children of all ages, beginning adult classes, master classes and classes for the developmentally and physically disabled. One of the key educational missions is to develop an educational "creativity center" where supervised exploration and experimentation by individuals, groups and families is fostered.
The organization seeks to create an atmosphere of collaboration among artists, musicians, performers, theatre technicians, audiances as well as the community as a whole.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,946,340.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.8M to $2.6M (+49%).
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 11% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $81k → $186k.
7 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 50% · 2019 59% · 2020 25% · 2021 24% · 2022 20% · 2023 28% — growing more concentrated.
“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 COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
78% of COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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. $542k 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
COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $177k on record — $20k federal, $157k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$101k
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$56k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$60
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 COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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 COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC?
- COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,549,064 to it, the largest being THE JOHN L MCGRAW AND MARJORIE P MCGRAW CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($536,400). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $2,549,064 in grants to COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC?
- THE JOHN L MCGRAW AND MARJORIE P MCGRAW CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $536,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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 41 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing