Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SALEM MAIN STREET INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN PROGRAM
SALEM MAIN STREET INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN PROGRAM (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $239k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Salem Main Street Initiative Downtown Program does
Mission
The continued revitalization of downtown salem as a vibrant, year-round, retail, dining and cultural destination through business retention, recruitment, and the promotion of downtown district.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The continued revitalization of downtown salem as a vibrant, year-round, retail, dining and cultural destination through business retention, recruitment, and the promotion of downtown district which is done throughout the year by various themed events.
$98,848 spent$143,495 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $98,848.
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 2021 to 2022, from $57k to $23k (−61%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 32% · 2018 31% · 2019 30% · 2020 24% · 2021 31% · 2022 27% · 2023 31% · 2024 28% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of SALEM MAIN STREET INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SALEM MAIN STREET INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN PROGRAM’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SALEM MAIN STREET INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN PROGRAM's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SALEM MAIN STREET INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN PROGRAM has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SALEM MAIN STREET INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN PROGRAM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3k
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.
Organizations like SALEM MAIN STREET INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN PROGRAM
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
45% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SALEM MAIN STREET INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN PROGRAM: 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 SALEM MAIN STREET INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN PROGRAM?
- SALEM MAIN STREET INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN PROGRAM (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SALEM MAIN STREET INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,500 in grants to SALEM MAIN STREET INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN PROGRAM.
- Who is the largest funder of SALEM MAIN STREET INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN PROGRAM?
- EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALEM MAIN STREET INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN PROGRAM 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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