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NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC

NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $612,459 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($346,514). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$397k
Revenue FY2025
15
Funders on record
$612k
Grants received
$8.4M
Net assets
9/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%

Against its field

NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC's revenue fell 75% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−18% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−16% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,211 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($106k) Net assets 100 ($4.1M)2018 Revenue 63 ($1.0M) Expenses 102 ($108k) Net assets 122 ($5.0M)2020 Revenue 68 ($1.1M) Expenses 332 ($352k) Net assets 143 ($5.8M)2021 Revenue 37 ($587k) Expenses 273 ($291k) Net assets 151 ($6.1M)2022 Revenue 37 ($589k) Expenses 263 ($279k) Net assets 158 ($6.4M)2023 Revenue 63 ($1.0M) Expenses 354 ($377k) Net assets 174 ($7.0M)2024 Revenue 113 ($1.8M) Expenses 408 ($434k) Net assets 207 ($8.4M)2025 Revenue 25 ($397k) Expenses 439 ($467k) Net assets 207 ($8.4M)
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Revenue (25)Expenses (439)Net assets (207)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 23% · 2018 49% · 2020 9% · 2023 91% · 2024 91% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

71% of NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,956 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.5M
17
$907k
18
$728k
20
$296k
21
$309k
22
$627k
23
$1.4M
24
$70k
25
3.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $49k → $17k.

6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)86% 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 NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST 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

NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86% 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 NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC.

57%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 78% · 2019 58% · 2020 67% · 2021 58% · 2022 53% · 2023 53%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

18% of NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

86% of NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST 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 $84k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
CT
CA
DC

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. $529k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $600k on record.

State$600k
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22
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$600k

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 NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST 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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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 NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC?
NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $612,459 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($346,514). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $612,459 in grants to NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS is the largest funder on record, with $346,514 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST 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 15funders 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