Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS INC
FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,750 to it, the largest being GEORGE B HENDERSON FOUNDATION JH5090 ($34,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Freedom Trail Foundation Incshared funders
- Mission Hillfenway Neighborhood Trust Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2019 99% · 2020 60% · 2024 79% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $34k → $750.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS 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 FENWAY STUDIOS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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% · 2021 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
98% of FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Incshared fundersportfolio matchMA · backs 11 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Freedom Trail Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 4 organizations that share your funders
- Mission Hillfenway Neighborhood Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Arts Strategies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Connecticut Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Council on the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rhode Island Council for the Humanitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cricket Fdn Jennifer L Grigg Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Flint Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Red Elm Tree Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George R Wallace Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$100k
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 FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS INC?
- FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,750 to it, the largest being GEORGE B HENDERSON FOUNDATION JH5090 ($34,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $34,750 in grants to FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS INC?
- GEORGE B HENDERSON FOUNDATION JH5090 is the largest funder on record, with $34,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing