New Hampshire · Nonprofit
MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC
MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,960,377 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,217,895). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- $10.0M
- Net assets
- $48M
What Marian and Edward Macdowell Inc does
Mission
Macdowell's mission is to nurture the arts by offering talented individuals an inspiring residential environment in which to produce enduring works of the imagination. Macdowell welcomes artists engaging in the broadest spectrum of artistic practice and those (see sch. O)investigating an unlimited array of creative inquiries and concerns. Macdowell applies the same egalitarian standards for all those who serve the organization in a staff, volunteer, or representative capacity. Macdowell grants fellowships to as many as 300 artists per year, offering room, board, and exclusive use of a studio for stays up to six weeks. Amidst the company of a diverse community of peers, macdowell fellows' productivity benefits from these weeks freed from distraction together with the opportunity to exchange creative ideas and connections in a convivial setting.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Application is open to all artists not currently matriculated as students. The sole criterion for acceptance is the artistic excellence apparent in a work sample submitted in the application and evaluated by peer panel review. Macdowell defines artistic excellence in a pluralistic and inclusive way, encouraging applications from the widest possible range of perspectives, career stages, and demographics. While in residence, artists receive room, board, and exclusive use of a studio for up to six weeks. All artists are eligible for reimbursement of travel costs associated with getting to and from macdowell. Financial assistance and stipends of up to $2,500 are awarded based on financial need. In 2024 a total of 80 artists received financial aid stipends totaling $233,279. (see sch o).education and community benefit programs, publication, presentations and other activities have allowed macdowell to increase understanding and appreciation of the arts for an inclusive public audience.founded in 1907, macdowell was awarded the national medal of arts in 1997 for "nurturing & inspiring many of the century's finest artists".
$4,065,495 spentof which $233,279 as grants$84,315 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,065,495.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $57M to $48M (−16%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2021 7% · 2022 0% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Nell Painter
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $540k → $1.1M.
17 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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
MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
46% 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 MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 42% · 2019 22% · 2020 28% · 2021 17% · 2022 23% · 2023 29% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Government funding MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $220k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$220k
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 MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL 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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- New High Street LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC?
- MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,960,377 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,217,895). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $9,960,377 in grants to MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,217,895 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 92 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