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Scituate Arts Association Inc

Scituate Arts Association Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,042 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($1,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$64k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$252k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Scituate Arts Association Inc does

Mission

The purpose of this organization is to promote the appreciation of the arts by providing a venue for local artist to display and demonstrate their works to the public by way of festivals shows classes and events for all ages.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The purpose of this organization is to promote the appreciation of the arts by providing a venue for local artist to display and demonstrate their works to the public by way of festivals shows classes and events for all ages.

    $63,737 spentof which $2,325 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $63,737.

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 ($67k) Expenses 100 ($48k) Net assets 100 ($200k)2020 Revenue 118 ($79k) Expenses 82 ($40k) Net assets 120 ($240k)2021 Revenue 109 ($73k) Expenses 121 ($58k) Net assets 127 ($254k)2022 Revenue 124 ($83k) Expenses 159 ($77k) Net assets 130 ($261k)2023 Revenue 131 ($88k) Expenses 164 ($79k) Net assets 135 ($270k)2024 Revenue 101 ($67k) Expenses 166 ($80k) Net assets 128 ($257k)2025 Revenue 95 ($64k) Expenses 142 ($68k) Net assets 126 ($252k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (95)Expenses (142)Net assets (126)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 $281k to $362k (+29%).

$281k
$362k
$369k
$366k
$364k
$339k
$326k
2019202020212022202320242025
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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

10% of Scituate Arts Association Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’19
$39k
’20
$15k
’21
$6k
’22
$9k
’23
−$13k
’24
−$5k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $263 → $16.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
2
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Scituate Arts Association 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

Scituate Arts Association Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

Scituate Arts Association Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.

NJ

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

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’21
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Scituate Arts Association Inc has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Government funding Scituate Arts Association Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7k on record.

State$7k
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24
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$7k

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

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

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Scituate Arts Association Inc?
Scituate Arts Association Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,042 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($1,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Scituate Arts Association Inc have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,042 in grants to Scituate Arts Association Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Scituate Arts Association Inc?
VERIZON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Scituate Arts Association 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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