Rhode Island · Nonprofit
EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (Rhode Island) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,419 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($501,261). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $681k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $811k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Educational Center of Arts and Sciences does
Mission
Based in providence, rhode island, teatro ecas brings together diverse multigenerational audiences to experience the joy of live theater performed in spanish - fostering self-discovery and cultural connection.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
With a focus on children, youth, and families, teatro ecas aspires to enrich the cultural and civic vitality of our community while achieving national prominence for its artists and its artistry. "te quiero" teatro ecas delivers bilingual arts and literacy educational enhancements to public schools throughout new england. The program serves over 200 children and familieis each year, and aims to build confidence and self-esteem through communication fostering respect for all, improving listening skills and collaboration, building strong relationships and encouraging interest in words, reading and language skills in english and spanish.
$64,619 spent15% of program spendingWith a focus on children, youth, and families, teatro ecas aspires to aspires to enrich the cultural and civic vitality of our community while achieving national prominence for its artists and its artistry. "te quiero" teatro ecas delivers bilingual arts and literacy educational enhancements to public schools throughout new england. The program serves over 200 children and familieis each year, and aims to build confidence and self- esteem through communication fostering respect for all, improving listening skills and collaboration, building strong relationships and encouraging interest in words, reading and language skills in english and spanish.
$380,953 spent85% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $445,572.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.3M to $1.6M (+29%).
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: 2020 33% · 2021 58% · 2023 70% · 2024 77% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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.
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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $141k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES’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
EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 63% · 2021 55% · 2022 79% · 2023 67% — 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
33% of EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
64% of EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES'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 $289k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $522k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
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 Rhode Island
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
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES?
- EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (Rhode Island) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,419 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($501,261). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $811,419 in grants to EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $501,261 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 11 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