Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,193,408 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc does
Mission
The mahaiwe performing arts center presents live performances, film, and cultural events year-round bringing a variety of content to the stage and screen of our historic berkshire theater, through programs of the highest quality in dance, music, drama, comedy, and educational and family programs. We bring together diverse audiences and artists, highlight national and regional talent, and contribute to the quality of life of our community through the performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public performance programthe mahaiwe is a year-round performing arts center presenting a broad range of high-quality programs in music, dance, theater, opera, films and lectures, both live and on screen, at ticket prices affordable to our community. The mahaiwe typically serves approximately 35,000 patrons annually, with approximately 140 programs each year.
$2,386,126 spent$1,299,951 earned by the program94% of program spendingEducation programthe mahaiwe offers performing arts education experiences to students and families throughout the tri-state region. We provide in-school workshops and residencies, virtual workshops and performances on-demand to classrooms, and live performances of dance, theater, and music at the theater as field trip events. This program typically serves approximately 3,000 students, from more than a dozen schools, often providing their first experiences of live professional performing arts. Additional arts education programs are offered for families during the summer months.
$89,281 spent$6,634 earned by the program4% of program spendingCommunity engagement program the mahaiwe is committed to establishing and growing partnerships with neighboring community and arts organizations to develop pathways for overcoming social and practical barriers so that immigrants, people of color, communities with low income, and others who have traditionally been underserved in the performing arts, can experience mahaiwe performances. We offer multiple spanish-language events, free outdoor concerts and film screenings throughout the year.
$70,307 spent$19,027 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,545,714.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $10M to $13M (+29%).
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: 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 (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Janis Martinson Sagarin
Executive director
Board chair
Margaret Deutsch
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $304k → $648k.
16 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 74 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 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
50% 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.
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
48% of MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
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
50% of MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
- (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
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
- MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,193,408 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $6,193,408 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?
- 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.
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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 74 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