Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC
FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,558,753 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,138,308). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $6.9M
What Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc does
Mission
The fine arts work center is an artist-led organization based in provincetown and connected to the world. We support artistic freedom, nurture creative connections, and make possible artistic achievements important to the larger culture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summer program: with more than 60 week-long workshops offered by many of the most renowned writers and artists working today, this year's summer workshop program presents classes in poetry, fiction, memoir, nonfiction, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography and mixed media, as well as a new master printer series. The program has expanded to include classes in printmaking, performance art, video, and songwriting. Courses are offered at all levels and with an intensive commitment to diversity of expression. A writing lab and the visual art studios are open, around the clock, creating an artistically dynamic environment with opportunities for complete immersion in the creative process.
$580,546 spentof which $16,053 as grants$240,634 earned by the program27% of program spendingFellowship program: seven-month residencies for emerging writers and artists: the fine arts work center is one of the country's preeminent long-term residencies, offering a unique fellowship program for writers and visual artists in the crucial early stages of their careers. The work center provides seven-month fellowships to twenty fellows each year in the form of living/work space and a monthly stipend. Residencies run from october 1 through april 30. Fellows pursue their work independently in a diverse and supportive community of peers while living in an area of spectacular natural beauty. Past fellows have won every major national award and prize, including the pulitzer, macarthur, whiting, pollock-krasner, tiffany, prix de rome, guggenheim, national endowment for the arts and national book award, publishing hundreds of books and exhibiting in countless museums and galleries worldwide. Fine arts work center fellows are expected to live and work in provincetown during the fellowship year. Optional group activities provide opportunities to meet program committee members, as well as visiting artists and writers of note.
$717,385 spent$45,000 earned by the program34% of program spendingOnline writing program: building on the work center's tradition of creative excellence and community, 24pearlstreet offers an engaging online learning experience led by nationally recognized poets and writers. Students can focus on doing their best work under the guidance of exceptional faculty, regardless of their location or schedule. The program runs year round in three genres: poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
$200,441 spent$76,935 earned by the program9% of program spendingOther programs
$622,253 spentof which $397,467 as grants$59,359 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,120,625.
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 $5.7M to $7.5M (+32%).
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: 2017 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 25% · 2022 8% · 2023 11% · 2024 21% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $248k → $798k.
16 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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
FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
46% 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 FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 59% · 2019 38% · 2020 43% · 2021 28% · 2022 17% · 2023 19% — 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
44% of FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 34 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Education$750k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$225k
- National Endowment for the Arts$180k
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 FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC?
- FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,558,753 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,138,308). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $4,558,753 in grants to FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,138,308 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 76 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