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MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL INC

MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,231 to it, the largest being BOGER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($12,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$43k
Net assets
$3.2M
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Mudflat Pottery School Inc does

Mission

Pottery classes & workshops

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provision of service to the community to provide pottery classes and workshops.

    $1,033,490 spent$1,302,725 earned by the program
    93% of program spending
  2. Sales of pottery by local artists provides exposure for the artists and educates the public on different art forms.

    $75,861 spent$71,507 earned by the program
    7% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,109,351.

02The 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 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($994k) Net assets 100 ($2.4M)2018 Revenue 101 ($1.1M) Expenses 108 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 104 ($1.1M) Expenses 106 ($1.1M) Net assets 105 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 75 ($813k) Expenses 91 ($901k) Net assets 101 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 106 ($1.1M) Expenses 105 ($1.0M) Net assets 106 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 125 ($1.3M) Expenses 126 ($1.3M) Net assets 110 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 153 ($1.7M) Expenses 140 ($1.4M) Net assets 122 ($2.9M)2024 Revenue 151 ($1.6M) Expenses 150 ($1.5M) Net assets 129 ($3.1M)2025 Revenue 147 ($1.6M) Expenses 154 ($1.5M) Net assets 133 ($3.2M)
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Revenue (147)Expenses (154)Net assets (133)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4.2M to $3.5M (−15%).

$3.8M
$3.7M
$3.8M
$3.6M
$3.8M
$3.7M
$4.0M
$4.2M
$3.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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: 2020 9% · 2021 8% · 2023 14% · 2024 9% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

10% of MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$84k
’17
$11k
’18
$66k
’19
−$88k
’20
$101k
’21
$95k
’22
$260k
’23
$136k
’24
$55k
’25
13
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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.

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Listed131313141513121316
Joined·+2+1+1+1+1+1+3+6
No longer listed·21003223
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $6k → $5k.

5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL 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

MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% 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 MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL INC.

28%
largest funder
74%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 52% · 2022 96% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.

“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

72% of MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL 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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

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MA

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. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve12.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $206k on record.

State$206k
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  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$206k

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 MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 24%Fundraising 3%

Governance

13
board members
77%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL INC?
MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,231 to it, the largest being BOGER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($12,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $43,231 in grants to MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL INC?
BOGER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MUDFLAT POTTERY SCHOOL 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 7 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