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MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC

MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,048,768 to it, the largest being THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$5.8M
Revenue FY2025
72
Funders on record
$6.0M
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
44/72 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%

Against its field

MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin40% · top quartile
Months of reserve17.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.3M) Net assets 100 ($8.3M)2018 Revenue 116 ($2.4M) Expenses 113 ($2.6M) Net assets 97 ($8.1M)2019 Revenue 124 ($2.5M) Expenses 114 ($2.6M) Net assets 96 ($8.0M)2020 Revenue 85 ($1.7M) Expenses 79 ($1.8M) Net assets 95 ($7.9M)2021 Revenue 162 ($3.3M) Expenses 84 ($1.9M) Net assets 111 ($9.2M)2022 Revenue 147 ($3.0M) Expenses 112 ($2.6M) Net assets 116 ($9.6M)2023 Revenue 136 ($2.8M) Expenses 122 ($2.8M) Net assets 116 ($9.6M)2024 Revenue 272 ($5.5M) Expenses 133 ($3.0M) Net assets 145 ($12M)2025 Revenue 286 ($5.8M) Expenses 152 ($3.5M) Net assets 173 ($14M)
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Revenue (286)Expenses (152)Net assets (173)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 18% · 2022 19% · 2023 6% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

73% of MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$261k
17
$235k
18
$108k
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$90k
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$1.3M
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$401k
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$23k
23
$2.5M
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$2.3M
25
17
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $304k → $648k.

16 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)51% 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 MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 funders by total. 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

MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

51% 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 MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC.

17%
largest funder
41%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 28% · 2019 22% · 2020 15% · 2021 12% · 2022 16% · 2023 13%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

47% of MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

51% of MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC'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 $3.0M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 11 states.

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
VA
DE
NC
TX
FL

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

03Its place in the field

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 72 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $745k on record — $10k federal, $735k state.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k
State$735k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$735k

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 MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 13%Fundraising 15%

Governance

25
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAHAIWE 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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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 MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,048,768 to it, the largest being THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $6,048,768 in grants to MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAHAIWE 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.

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 72funders 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