New Hampshire · Nonprofit
PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC
PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,030,459 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($585,600). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Portsmouth Music & Arts Center Inc does
Mission
To build community through the arts by providing all people with the opportunity to achieve their full creative potential, regardless of their age, ability or economic status. We accomplish this through high quality music and visual arts education programs and by creating ensemble, performance and exhibiton opportunities for students, professionals, and audiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides individual instruction in a wide variety of musical instruments and voice for community members of all ages, including adults. The center also offers a wide variety of art classes as well as individual instruction. Classes are in a variety of mediums including but not limited to drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, sculpture and photography.the organization offers several educational music ensembles taught by professional faculty. Ensembles include youth orchestra, teen jazz band, youth rock bands, and many adult community ensembles including flute choir, saxophone ensemble, bluegrass ensemble, concert band, jazz band, big band, blues band and more.
$921,529 spent$847,787 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $921,529.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.6M to $2.7M (+67%).
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.
65% of PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% 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
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
Russell B Grazier Jr
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Lisa Shawney
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 fell $198k → $53k.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER 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
PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 93% · 2019 62% · 2020 56% · 2021 89% · 2022 40% · 2023 37% — 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
30% of PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
80% of PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER 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 $211k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $820k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER 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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER 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 PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC?
- PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,030,459 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($585,600). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,030,459 in grants to PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $585,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 23 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