Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Montserrat College Of Art Inc
Montserrat College Of Art Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,464,142 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($695,250). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What Montserrat College Of Art Inc does
Mission
Founded by working creative professionals, montserrat college of art provides an individualized education focused on maximizing the professional and personal success of each student. Structured around experiential learning, studio practice, liberal arts, and professional preparation, the mission of the college is to ensure that its graduates leave equipped with the competence, confidence, and habits of mind to build lives of creative enterprise and community engagement. Montserrat recognizes its role as an economic driver and cultural leader in the region. Montserrat college of art is a non-profit, independent art school, accredited by the new england commission of higher education (neche), through its commission on institutions of higher education to award the bachelor of fine arts degree in 10 studio concentrations. The college is also a member of the association of independent colleges of art and design.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Montserrat has an active student body of 360+ students as of fall 2024 and employs 70+ faculty members. Its small size allows for more academic attention to the progress of each individual student. We believe in preparing our students for successful, enjoyable careers in creative fields. That's why we incorporate experience-based learning into our curriculum and assist students with finding meaningful internships that most complete during their junior year. Montserrat college of art offers a wide variety of art, design and writing programs in a student-centered environment that's rigorous, and collaborative.
$11,463,955 spentof which $4,459,670 as grants$11,690,981 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,463,955.
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 2022 to 2023, from $17M to $21M (+25%).
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 0% · 2022 7% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of Montserrat College Of Art Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Mercedes Sherrod Evans
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $376k → $935k.
9 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 Montserrat College Of Art Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
Montserrat College Of Art Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
87% 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 Montserrat College Of Art Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 34% · 2019 55% · 2020 23% · 2021 34% · 2022 45% · 2023 67% — 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
46% of Montserrat College Of Art Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
82% of Montserrat College Of Art 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 $628k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Montserrat College Of Art Inc receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Montserrat College Of Art Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.9M on record — $3.7M federal, $280k state.
- Department of Education$3.6M
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
- MA$239k
- DE$41k
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 Montserrat College Of Art 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Montserrat College Of Art 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Montserrat College Of Art Inc?
- Montserrat College Of Art Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,464,142 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($695,250). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Montserrat College Of Art Inc have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $3,464,142 in grants to Montserrat College Of Art Inc, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Montserrat College Of Art Inc?
- ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $695,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Montserrat College Of Art 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 37 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