Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $519,025 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($239,112). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $519k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What North End Music & Performing Arts Center does
Mission
Rooted in boston's north end, our mission is to enrich lives through accessible, exceptional music education and performing arts programs that embrace our vibrant and diverse communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Private music instruction: nempac provides private and group music lessons to students of all ages and abilities across several genres of music and instruments, including piano, voice, guitar, strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion.
$670,804 spent$437,232 earned by the program68% of program spendingChild course and outreach: nempac provides high-quality instruction and access to music, theatre, and dance training throughout its youth classes, both afterschool programs and early childhood. Its partnerships with local schools supports in-school and after-school access and affordability to music for students of all ages and abilities.
$286,079 spent$246,758 earned by the program29% of program spendingSummer programs and full-day workshops: nempac provides programming for between four to six weeks throughout the summer months, many of which are performance-based. Students engage in music theatre troupe, meet the instruments, dance programs, and teen internship programs. Many of the programs also complement the free community nempac summer concert series.
$29,594 spent$121,320 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $986,477.
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 2021 to 2022, from $898k to $1.3M (+49%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Sherri Snow
Executive director
Board chair
Mary O'Neill
President/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $22k → $60k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER’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
NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 62% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 69% · 2022 78% · 2023 52% — 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
40% of NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
74% of NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER'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 $134k 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. $385k 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.
Against its field
NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: 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 NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $519,025 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($239,112). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $519,025 in grants to NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $239,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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 16 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