Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD INC
MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $256 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($131). 1 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.
Against its field
MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD INC's revenue grew 37% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- New Bedford Economic Development Council Inclocal
- Theater League Incportfolio match
- Edvestors Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 5% · 2021 23% · 2022 14% · 2023 19% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $132 → $29.
1 of 3 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 MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD 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
MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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
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 MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 76% · 2021 100% · 2022 62% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
51% of MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD 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 $125 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $131 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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.
- New Bedford Economic Development Council InclocalMA · funds 158 organizations near you
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edvestors Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shubert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Theatre Wing Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Play on Shakespeareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frederick Loewe Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gendler Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Suzanne Roberts Cultural Development Fund Sheldon Bonovitz Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friendship 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 MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $62k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$62k
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 MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD 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.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD 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 MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD INC?
- MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $256 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($131). 1 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 MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $256 in grants to MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $131 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL THEATER GUILD 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 3funders 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