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ELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY INC

ELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being THE RED ELM TREE FOUNDATION ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$96k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$35k
Net assets
$87k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Eliot Fisk Guitar Academy Inc does

Mission

Cross-disciplinary music education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Music festivals and education

    $59,799 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,799.

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 ($107k) Expenses 100 ($34k) Net assets 100 ($74k)2022 Revenue 52 ($56k) Expenses 172 ($58k) Net assets 97 ($72k)2023 Revenue 139 ($150k) Expenses 341 ($114k) Net assets 145 ($107k)2024 Revenue 67 ($72k) Expenses 352 ($118k) Net assets 69 ($51k)2025 Revenue 90 ($96k) Expenses 178 ($60k) Net assets 118 ($87k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (90)Expenses (178)Net assets (118)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 2023 to 2024, from $112k to $52k (−54%).

$74k
$78k
$112k
$52k
$88k
20212022202320242025
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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

74% of ELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$74k
’21
−$2k
’22
$35k
’23
−$46k
’24
$37k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of ELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY 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.

Where its funders are

100% of ELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Government funding ELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.

State$15k
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25
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$15k

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 ELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds ELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY INC?
ELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being THE RED ELM TREE FOUNDATION ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $35,000 in grants to ELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY INC?
THE RED ELM TREE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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