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DUNAMIS INC

DUNAMIS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,100 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$230k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$295k
Net assets
$13k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Dunamis Inc does

Mission

Dunamis ignites agency and transformative growth for emerging artists and arts-managers of color by serving as a nexus for professional development, community-building, consultation, production, advocacy and developing equitable pipelines for access and leadership in creative spaces. In short, we do a lot for a small amount of people. We give you the support you need to grow into a greater and more complete version of yours

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support young artists in Massachusetts

    $173,592 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $173,592.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($39k) Expenses 100 ($25k) Net assets 100 ($14k)2022 Revenue 505 ($196k) Expenses 785 ($194k) Net assets 110 ($15k)2023 Revenue 699 ($271k) Expenses 1235 ($306k) Net assets -250 ($-34912)2024 Revenue 593 ($230k) Expenses 877 ($217k) Net assets 91 ($13k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (593)Expenses (877)Net assets (91)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $15k to $-34912 (−328%).

$14k
$15k
$-34912
$13k
2021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of DUNAMIS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’21
$1k
’22
−$35k
’23
$13k
’24
1.3
months of
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.

20232024
Listed44
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $114k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 DUNAMIS 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

DUNAMIS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

62% 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 DUNAMIS INC.

34%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 64% · 2023 44% — 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

60% of DUNAMIS INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

98% of DUNAMIS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DUNAMIS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)81% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding DUNAMIS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27k on record.

State$27k
22
23
24
25
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$27k

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 DUNAMIS 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds DUNAMIS INC?
DUNAMIS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,100 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DUNAMIS INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $295,100 in grants to DUNAMIS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DUNAMIS INC?
BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DUNAMIS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 8 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