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FRIENDS OF METUCHEN ARTS COUNCIL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION
FRIENDS OF METUCHEN ARTS COUNCIL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,720 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($14,199). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Friends of Metuchen Arts Council a Nj Nonprofit Corporation does
Mission
Friends of metuchen arts (foma) is organized to present events, offer programs, and provide financial support for the growth of art in all its forms, including but not limited to visual arts, film, music, theatre, and dance in the borough of metuchen and surrounding communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization advanced its exempt purpose by promoting arts education and cultural enrichment through volunteer engagement, fundraising, grant and program support, and community events. Activities benefited local artists, students, and vendors, fostered public appreciation of the arts, and ensured broad community acceshe organization advanced its exempt purpose by promoting arts education and cultural enrichment through volunteer engagement, fundraising, grant and program support, and community events. Activities benefited local artists, students, and vendors, fostered public appreciation of the arts, and ensured broad community access through inclusive and accessible programming.
$36,137 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,137.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $10k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 METUCHEN ARTS COUNCIL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION’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 METUCHEN ARTS COUNCIL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
90% 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 METUCHEN ARTS COUNCIL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 85% — 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
90% of FRIENDS OF METUCHEN ARTS COUNCIL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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 METUCHEN ARTS COUNCIL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF METUCHEN ARTS COUNCIL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION
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In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
90%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF METUCHEN ARTS COUNCIL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION?
- FRIENDS OF METUCHEN ARTS COUNCIL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,720 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($14,199). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF METUCHEN ARTS COUNCIL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $15,720 in grants to FRIENDS OF METUCHEN ARTS COUNCIL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF METUCHEN ARTS COUNCIL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $14,199 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF METUCHEN ARTS COUNCIL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 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