Massachusetts · Nonprofit
POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED
POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,059,137 to it, the largest being DYNAMICLAND FOUNDATION ($1,700,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $322k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $431k
What Powderhouse Studios Limited does
Mission
To advance the art and science of seeing old things in new ways through research and development, exploring the potential of computation and story telling to enable and support independent investigation. To accomplish this, we have set up a new high school in somerville under the massachusetts innovation school legislation. The mission of this school is to support young people in their transition from students (largely passive recipients of information) into independent investigators. This high school will offer us sandbox and context to develop the tools, materials, and programs which sit at the core of our mission, powering our educational, research, and design work.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
Powderhouse studios is a small, new high school slated to open 2020 in somerville. Inspired by the best creative workplaces, studios, and labs, we've redesigned school to build a place like these where teenagers work on projects they care about.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $300k → $650k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED’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
POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% 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 POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $400k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED
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
85% 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 POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED: 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 POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED?
- POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,059,137 to it, the largest being DYNAMICLAND FOUNDATION ($1,700,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $3,059,137 in grants to POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED?
- DYNAMICLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED 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 FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), and the filings of 4 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