Vermont · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF ARROW STREET ARTS INC
FRIENDS OF ARROW STREET ARTS INC (Vermont) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,220,900 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($4,650,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Friends of Arrow Street Arts Inc does
Mission
Friends of arrow street arts, inc. Curates and hosts a full calendar of multi-disciplinary artistic work to engage, challenge, and reimagine performing arts as a community asset and offers accessible, multi-arts spaces and production services to artists and organizations who welcome, engage, and connect their communities through the transformative powers of live, in-person performances.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Arrow street arts, inc. (asa) is in the start-up phase. Its current program is the renovation, and revitalization of the performance venue at two arrow street in cambridge, while expanding the arts space with the repurposing of an adjacent vacant retail space. Asa's renovation work will be completed in 2024, with a soft opening activation of the spaces during a construction pause in late 2023. Once completed, its program will subsidize and provide rental of space for performing artists, performers, and artistic companies to present their works to audiences.the venue encompasses the first floor of an existing four-story, 40,000 sf mixed-use building that opened in 2005. With renovations underway and planned by charles rose architects, asa's 11,500 sf performance facility will be revitalized with extensive production investments in two flexible performance spaces along with other upgrades to enhance the audience and artist experience alike. A 4,500 sf black box theater will offer various seating configurations for up to approximately 300 audience members; and a new 1,100 sf street-front studio expands the overall arts footprint by about 10 percent. The studio space is expected to…
$3,416,012 spent$114,430 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,416,012.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $13M to $20M (+52%).
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.
92% of FRIENDS OF ARROW STREET ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $2.7M.
4 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FRIENDS OF ARROW STREET ARTS 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
FRIENDS OF ARROW STREET ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 FRIENDS OF ARROW STREET ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 53% — 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
100% of FRIENDS OF ARROW STREET ARTS 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FRIENDS OF ARROW STREET ARTS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF ARROW STREET ARTS 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Arrow Street LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ARROW STREET ARTS INC?
- FRIENDS OF ARROW STREET ARTS INC (Vermont) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,220,900 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($4,650,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF ARROW STREET ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $12,220,900 in grants to FRIENDS OF ARROW STREET ARTS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF ARROW STREET ARTS INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $4,650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF ARROW STREET ARTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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