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SARASA INC

SARASA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,796 to it, the largest being MCKENZIE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($112,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$123k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$294k
Net assets
$361k
6/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Sarasa Inc does

Mission

Provide music to diverse groups

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provide chamber music to wide array of people,schools, chidren-hospitals and others to enhance & entice in the world of classical music

    $86,140 spentof which $23,430 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $86,140.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($79k) Expenses 100 ($85k) Net assets 100 ($140k)2018 Revenue 119 ($94k) Expenses 136 ($115k) Net assets 106 ($148k)2019 Revenue 105 ($83k) Expenses 131 ($111k) Net assets 86 ($120k)2020 Revenue 98 ($77k) Expenses 97 ($82k) Net assets 214 ($299k)2021 Revenue 82 ($65k) Expenses 106 ($90k) Net assets 249 ($349k)2022 Revenue 82 ($65k) Expenses 145 ($123k) Net assets 194 ($271k)2023 Revenue 121 ($96k) Expenses 146 ($124k) Net assets 182 ($255k)2024 Revenue 146 ($115k) Expenses 146 ($124k) Net assets 176 ($246k)2025 Revenue 155 ($123k) Expenses 166 ($141k) Net assets 258 ($361k)
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Revenue (155)Expenses (166)Net assets (258)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 2019 to 2020, from $121k to $300k (+148%).

$141k
$148k
$121k
$300k
$351k
$274k
$258k
$249k
$364k
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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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

81% of SARASA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6k
’17
−$21k
’18
−$28k
’19
−$5k
’20
−$25k
’21
−$58k
’22
−$28k
’23
−$9k
’24
−$18k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $25k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 SARASA 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

SARASA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

32% 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 SARASA INC.

38%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 66% · 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 54% · 2022 75% · 2023 52% — 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

43% of SARASA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

SARASA INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.

VT
NY
MA
CA

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

SARASA INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding SARASA INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $68k on record — $10k federal, $58k state.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k
State$58k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$58k

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.

Public support

74%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SARASA INC?
SARASA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,796 to it, the largest being MCKENZIE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($112,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SARASA INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $293,796 in grants to SARASA INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SARASA INC?
MCKENZIE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $112,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SARASA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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