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LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC

LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,790,128 to it, the largest being PETER AND ANN LAMBERTUS FAMILY FOUNDATIO ($860,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$791k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$1.8M
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 81%
01What it does

What Lexington Arts and Crafts Society Inc does

Mission

To promote the interests and standards in arts & crafts in the community and provide education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The society has about 400 combined members and studio artisans working in 9 studio groups. Programming is broken into 3 primary areas, consisting of shared studio/maker's spaces, a studio education program of around 120 classes and workshops annually, and gallery exhibitions, markets and fairs. All programs are open to the public.

    $530,012 spentof which $10,000 as grants$382,339 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $530,012.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($330k) Expenses 100 ($288k) Net assets 100 ($601k)2018 Revenue 96 ($316k) Expenses 99 ($286k) Net assets 105 ($631k)2019 Revenue 98 ($324k) Expenses 105 ($302k) Net assets 109 ($652k)2020 Revenue 207 ($684k) Expenses 109 ($315k) Net assets 168 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 204 ($675k) Expenses 115 ($331k) Net assets 229 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 265 ($874k) Expenses 181 ($522k) Net assets 287 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 215 ($710k) Expenses 213 ($616k) Net assets 303 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 219 ($722k) Expenses 262 ($754k) Net assets 306 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 239 ($791k) Expenses 296 ($854k) Net assets 300 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (239)Expenses (296)Net assets (300)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $664k to $1.1M (+61%).

$601k
$631k
$664k
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$1.9M
$1.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$42k
’17
$30k
’18
$21k
’19
$368k
’20
$344k
’21
$352k
’22
$94k
’23
−$33k
’24
−$63k
’25
3.1
months of
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.

Board chair

Diane Gordon

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131415171818151514
Joined·+7+13+5+5+4+2+0+2
No longer listed·612344503
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $11k → $233k.

6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY 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

LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

48% 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 LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC.

48%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 97% · 2019 35% · 2020 42% · 2021 64% · 2022 73% · 2023 43% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

94% of LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $860k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC

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In Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 27%Fundraising 11%

Governance

13
board members
92%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC?
LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,790,128 to it, the largest being PETER AND ANN LAMBERTUS FAMILY FOUNDATIO ($860,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,790,128 in grants to LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC?
PETER AND ANN LAMBERTUS FAMILY FOUNDATIO is the largest funder on record, with $860,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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