Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Craft Institute Inc
Craft Institute Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being JKW FOUNDATION TR UA 092597 ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Craft Institute Inc's revenue fell 41% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Target Foundationshared funders
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio match
- Indiespace Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
100% of Craft Institute Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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 Craft Institute 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
Craft Institute Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
Craft Institute Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Target Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiespace Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brooklyn Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theatre Communications Group Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Participant Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jim Henson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Network of Ensemble Theaters Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Springboard for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Flushing Council on Culture and the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Craft Institute Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31k on record — $20k federal, $11k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$11k
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 Craft Institute Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Craft Institute 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Craft Institute Inc?
- Craft Institute Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being JKW FOUNDATION TR UA 092597 ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Craft Institute Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,000 in grants to Craft Institute Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Craft Institute Inc?
- JKW FOUNDATION TR UA 092597 is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Craft Institute 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing