Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC
NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,817,197 to it, the largest being JOYCE & GEORGE WEIN FOUNDATION INC ($1,691,500). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Newport Festivals Foundation Inc does
Mission
Newport festival foundation's mission is to create moments of hope through the power of music and community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, the newport folk festival the festival was held at fort adams state park from july 25-27. The festival highlighted over 60 performances from both new, up and coming artists and established legends.
$5,269,481 spent$5,151,514 earned by the program49% of program spendingIn 2025, the newport jazz festival the festival was held at fort adams state park from august 1-3. The festival highlighted over 60 performances from both new, up and coming artists and established legends.
$4,894,503 spent$4,370,105 earned by the program45% of program spendingIn 2025, newport festivals foundation continued to grow its year-round music education programming. 2025 programs included free music lessons, summer camps, instrument donations, free after school music programs, musician relief funds, and partnering with newport festivals artists to create content to be shared free of charge to music education programs across the country. Free festival access was provided for select local nonprofits, high school students and all children under 10.
$683,676 spentof which $20,000 as grants6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,847,660.
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 2023 to 2024, from $22M to $27M (+23%).
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 32% · 2022 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 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
Bruce S Gordon
Board member/chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $186k → $1.2M.
17 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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
NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
39% 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 NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 53% · 2019 33% · 2020 28% · 2021 18% · 2022 19% · 2023 41% — 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 NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION 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 NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC?
- NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,817,197 to it, the largest being JOYCE & GEORGE WEIN FOUNDATION INC ($1,691,500). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $6,817,197 in grants to NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC?
- JOYCE & GEORGE WEIN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,691,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION 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 75 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