Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND INC
FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,742 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($60,775). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $402k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $113k
- Net assets
- $301k
What Folk Arts Center of New England Inc does
Mission
To promote traditional folk dance and music
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To present classes, workshops, parties, concerts, and camps that provide opportunities to learn, practice, and appreciate folk dance, music, and culture from around the word, as well as support to dancers and musicians
$327,312 spent$389,106 earned by the program97% of program spendingTo provide information and referral services on dance resources available in the greater Boston area
$0 spent0% of program spendingTo make available folk dance recordings, sheet music, and instructions for the dance community
$10,060 spent$13,106 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $337,372.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $267k to $365k (+37%).
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: 2022 4% · 2023 11% · 2024 3% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Marcie Van Cleave
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $12k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND 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
FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% 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 FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 99% · 2020 43% · 2021 75% · 2022 55% · 2023 57% — 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.
Where its funders are
65% of FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND INC'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND INC is better cushioned than half 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 FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND INC?
- FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,742 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($60,775). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $112,742 in grants to FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $60,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 7 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