Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SHIRLEY ARTS INC
SHIRLEY ARTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,150 to it, the largest being SHIRLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($900). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $27k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Shirley Arts Inc does
Mission
arts education
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Anniversary Concert Performance - 3 staff, 32 cast members, 139 audience members
$4,054 spent21% of program spendingBeauty and the Beast Jr, childrens musical production -3 staff members, 29 cast members,419 audience
$6,917 spent36% of program spendingMusic and Movement elementary school classes - 2 staff members, 43 participants, 92 audience
$614 spent3% of program spendingCommunity Christmas Concerts - 1 staff member, 16 participants, 30 audience
$547 spent3% of program spendingNuncrackers, musical production - 4 staff, 20 cast members, 368 audience members
$7,067 spent37% of program spendingcommunity events - 2 staff members, attendance numbers not captured due to no admission charged but estimated over 200 community members in attendance
$100 spent1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,299.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $4k to $13k (+228%).
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.
7% of SHIRLEY ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $250 → $900.
From the IRS filings of SHIRLEY ARTS 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
SHIRLEY ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of SHIRLEY ARTS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
SHIRLEY ARTS INC 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
Government funding SHIRLEY ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$10k
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 SHIRLEY ARTS INC
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.
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 SHIRLEY ARTS INC: 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 SHIRLEY ARTS INC?
- SHIRLEY ARTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,150 to it, the largest being SHIRLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($900). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHIRLEY ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,150 in grants to SHIRLEY ARTS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of SHIRLEY ARTS INC?
- SHIRLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHIRLEY ARTS 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 2020–2024), 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