Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
GRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $750 to it, the largest being GRAYCE B KERR FUND INC ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $408k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $750
- Net assets
- $67k
What Grass Roots Cultural and Performing Arts Center Inc does
Mission
Live music performances showcasing original music in less commercial but culturally important genres. Shows are streamed live, recorded and edited to be archived in our library for preservation purposes. Live audience is between 50 and 80 people. Bands have access to the recordings.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The grass roots cultural and performing arts center, inc.'s primary program service is to produce live performances by musicians performing traditional american roots music, to record and preserve those performances, and to build community support for live music performances.
$382,010 spent$334,916 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $382,010.
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 2022 to 2023, from $108k to $427k (+296%).
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: 2021 51% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of GRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of GRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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
GRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
“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
GRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
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
GRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC has grown faster 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 GRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 GRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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 GRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
- GRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $750 to it, the largest being GRAYCE B KERR FUND INC ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $750 in grants to GRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC.
- Who is the largest funder of GRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
- GRAYCE B KERR FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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 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