Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FOLK NEW ENGLAND INC
FOLK NEW ENGLAND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being MILLER-SWEEZY CHARITABLE TRUST ($3,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Folk New England Inc does
Mission
To document, preserve,interpret and present the ongoing cultural legacy of folk music in all its forms, with an emphasis on New England's contribution to the enrichment
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Not described on the e-filed return.
$6,140 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $6,140.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $4k to $22k (+445%).
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.
100% of FOLK NEW ENGLAND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Brian Quinn
Executive director
Board chair
Jim Rooney
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of FOLK 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 NEW ENGLAND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
FOLK NEW ENGLAND INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
FOLK NEW ENGLAND INC's revenue fell 78% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FOLK 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOLK 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 NEW ENGLAND INC?
- FOLK NEW ENGLAND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being MILLER-SWEEZY CHARITABLE TRUST ($3,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOLK NEW ENGLAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,500 in grants to FOLK NEW ENGLAND INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOLK NEW ENGLAND INC?
- MILLER-SWEEZY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOLK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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