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PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER

PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,782 to it, the largest being GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($176,610). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$591k
Revenue FY2025
12
Funders on record
$509k
Grants received
$477k
Net assets
10/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%

Against its field

PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER is better cushioned than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve8.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture 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 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($607k) Expenses 100 ($471k) Net assets 100 ($447k)2023 Revenue 102 ($619k) Expenses 106 ($502k) Net assets 126 ($564k)2024 Revenue 69 ($418k) Expenses 110 ($516k) Net assets 104 ($466k)2025 Revenue 97 ($591k) Expenses 123 ($579k) Net assets 107 ($477k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (97)Expenses (123)Net assets (107)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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 2% · 2023 7% · 2024 3% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

47% of PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$136k
22
$118k
23
$98k
24
$12k
25
8.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $17k → $120k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)73% 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 PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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

PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% 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

78% 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 PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER.

35%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 93% · 2019 91% · 2020 51% · 2021 39% · 2022 31% · 2023 29%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

75% of PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

73% of PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER'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 $137k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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19
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21
22
23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $372k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

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 12 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.

Organizations like PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER

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

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 37%Fundraising 8%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER: 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 PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER?
PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,782 to it, the largest being GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($176,610). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $508,782 in grants to PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER?
GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $176,610 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 12funders 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