Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION
PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,992 to it, the largest being FRACTURED ATLAS INC ($56,142). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $59k
What Provincetown Public Art Foundation does
Mission
The Provincetown Public Art Foundation is dedicated to telling the story of provincetown's, past, present and future with public art.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The trap shed mural project is a temporary installation of murals commissioned by the ppaf that are mounted on the sides of the provincetown artist trap shed buildings. The murals are rotated annually, and the second rotation was completed by late june '25. The murals are painted off-site on aluminum composite material and then installed at the site.
$64,322 spent83% of program spendingGeneral programs - includes money spent on accounting help and expenses related to fundraising events, producing thank-you cards, postage etc. Opening and closing events for bryants site - catered by angel foods. Provincetown art society fundraising event - catered by the pas. Forum on public art in provincetown, held at the commons, catered by farland provisions.
$10,650 spentof which $605 as grants14% of program spendingBryant saltworks art site project - the bryant saltworks (467 commercial st.) site is a 12' x 12' deck platform that we built to stage sculpture exhibitions. In '23 we purchased materials and constructed the deck with our own volunteer labor. In early summer '23, we installed a sculpture by the artist andrew mowbrey (installed july - september). We catered opening and closing events and held a fundraiser featuring andrew's work at the provincetown art society.
$1,687 spent2% of program spendingOther: jay critchley project and mary heaton vorse - ongoing sculpture commission that we curated for the sculptor penelope jencks to create a lifesize sculpture of the writer and activist, mary heaton vorse. Penelope works very slowly. Expenses relate to supplies material purchased by penelope, contract labor hired to assist penelope with an armature, and moving expenses incurred while moving penelope from wellfleet to newton, ma, to her winter studio.
$541 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $77,200.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $38k to $90k (+140%).
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.
99% of PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Samuel Tager
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $21k → $23k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION’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
PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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 PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 87% — 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
PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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.
Against its field
PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION: 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 PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION?
- PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,992 to it, the largest being FRACTURED ATLAS INC ($56,142). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $83,992 in grants to PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION?
- FRACTURED ATLAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $56,142 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 7 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