Massachusetts · Nonprofit
LINES AND SPACES INC
LINES AND SPACES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,500 to it, the largest being Bluestone Bank Charitable Foundation Inc ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LINES AND SPACES INC runs a healthier operating margin 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.
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Incshared funderslocal
- D'Addario Foundation Incportfolio match
- The Lewis Prize Foundation Incportfolio match
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 LINES AND SPACES 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
LINES AND SPACES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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
100% of LINES AND SPACES INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
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. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 168 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · funds 40 organizations near you
- D'Addario Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewis Prize Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Fairfax County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Anonimo Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Carnegie Hall Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Music USA Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Find Your Light 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 LINES AND SPACES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3k
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 LINES AND SPACES 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LINES AND SPACES 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 LINES AND SPACES INC?
- LINES AND SPACES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,500 to it, the largest being Bluestone Bank Charitable Foundation Inc ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINES AND SPACES INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,500 in grants to LINES AND SPACES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINES AND SPACES INC?
- Bluestone Bank Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINES AND SPACES 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 2025–2025), 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