Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC
SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,220,981 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($921,462). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What South Shore Conservatory of Music Inc does
Mission
The mission of south shore conservatory is to provide access to exceptional arts education and performance for the south shore community, fostering creativity, artistic growth, and well-being for individuals of all ages and abilities. With campuses in hingham and duxbury, ssc's arts-based educational programs provide a creative path for a lifetime of learning, from childhood through adulthood, through outstanding faculty and nationally celebrated programming in music instruction, ensembles, dance, early childhood education, creative arts therapy, performance, community and school partnerships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Private lessons, group classes, and ensembles are offered for children and adults of all ages and abilities, in a wide range of instruments and genres, with rolling admissions year-round. Early childhood offerings include an arts-integrated preschool/prek/kindergarten program, on the conservatory's hingham campus.
$3,218,362 spentof which $242,965 as grants$2,582,388 earned by the program89% of program spendingCommunity partnerships create access by providing music education, creative arts therapies, and performance opportunities through on and off campus collaborations with schools, senior centers, and social service agencies.
$240,427 spentof which $18,288 as grants$194,103 earned by the program7% of program spendingConcert and festival programs such as duxbury music festival, premiere concerts including evenings under the stars, and summer music festival exist at the intersection of arts education and performance, bringing together faculty, students, alumni, and guest artists.
$138,150 spent$120,714 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,596,939.
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 2017 to 2018, from $7.7M to $8.7M (+13%).
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: 2021 30% · 2022 20% · 2023 6% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Kathy Battistoni Skillman
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $376k → $516k.
9 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. 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
SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
42% 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 SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 35% · 2019 33% · 2020 21% · 2021 31% · 2022 22% · 2023 19% — 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
57% of SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% give in more than one year at all.
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
89% of SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC 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. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC?
- SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,220,981 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($921,462). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $4,220,981 in grants to SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $921,462 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 46 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing