Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED
NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,382,319 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($23,888,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED is better cushioned than half of the 501 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 501 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Mertz Gilmore Foundationshared funders
- Association of Performing Arts Professionalsportfolio match
- The Eppes - Jefferson Foundation 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: 2017 18% · 2018 22% · 2019 20% · 2020 13% · 2021 26% · 2022 18% · 2023 43% · 2024 19% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $3.9M → $6.9M.
8 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED’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
NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 94% · 2019 97% · 2020 49% · 2021 60% · 2022 28% · 2023 39% — 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
50% of NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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. Your 27 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Mertz Gilmore Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Association of Performing Arts Professionalsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Eppes - Jefferson Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jerome Robbins Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Princess Grace Foundation - USAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jerome Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cricket Fdn Jennifer L Grigg Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 2wice Arts Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nathan M Clark Foundation 2574-00-48portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trust for Mutual Understandingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Performance Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts Incportfolio 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 NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.0M on record — $19.8M federal, $130k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$13.1M
- Department of State$6.7M
- Membership Dues$130k
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 NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED: 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 NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED?
- NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,382,319 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($23,888,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $53,382,319 in grants to NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,888,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED 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 27funders 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