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PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC

PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,876,780 to it, the largest being PONSOLD MOTHERWELL CHARITABLE TRUST ($3,450,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.7M
Funders on record
64
Grants received
$8.9M
Net assets
$18M
38/64 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%
01What it does

What Provincetown Art Association and Museum Inc does

Mission

Maintain & exhibit permanent art collection, school, gallery and special exhibits involving visual arts

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Museum gallery - exhibitions, displays, shows and general museum activity revolving around the museum art collection.

    $1,286,438 spent$172,112 earned by the program
    94% of program spending
  2. Museum school - programs involving the visual arts; fees charged to cover costs.

    $79,778 spentof which $17,500 as grants$62,972 earned by the program
    6% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,366,216.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($9.8M)2020 Revenue 84 ($1.6M) Expenses 90 ($1.5M) Net assets 102 ($10M)2021 Revenue 195 ($3.7M) Expenses 90 ($1.5M) Net assets 128 ($13M)2022 Revenue 221 ($4.2M) Expenses 107 ($1.8M) Net assets 145 ($14M)2023 Revenue 140 ($2.7M) Expenses 111 ($1.9M) Net assets 153 ($15M)2024 Revenue 243 ($4.7M) Expenses 125 ($2.2M) Net assets 181 ($18M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (243)Expenses (125)Net assets (181)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $13M to $16M (+18%).

$13M
$13M
$16M
$17M
$18M
$19M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 4% · 2020 13% · 2021 10% · 2022 5% · 2023 8% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$192k
’19
$61k
’20
$2.2M
’21
$2.4M
’22
$753k
’23
$2.5M
’24
3.8
months of
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

Christine Mccarthy

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed252525252224
Joined·+3+1+1+2+4
No longer listed·31152
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $117k → $583k.

17 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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

PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

39%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 23% · 2019 54% · 2020 20% · 2021 24% · 2022 64% · 2023 26% — 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

46% of PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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

PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 10 states in all.

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
DE
NM

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin54% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.

Federal$20k
grants $20kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$20k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 23%Fundraising 14%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

93%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC?
PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,876,780 to it, the largest being PONSOLD MOTHERWELL CHARITABLE TRUST ($3,450,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC have?
IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $8,876,780 in grants to PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC?
PONSOLD MOTHERWELL CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 64 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing