Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC)
SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC) (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,758,424 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($920,384). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $985k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $456k
What Spoke Art Inc (Fka Medicine Wheel Productions Inc) does
Mission
Spoke activates the transformative power of art to heal divisions, strengthen community, and drive social progress. We forge a common path of equity and civic engagement across greater boston through visual art, dance, poetry and spoken-word performance. Young people are essential contributors to all of our work. Creating together, we emerge with a deeper understanding of ourselves, each other, and the world we share.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Spoke has introduced thousands of at risk youth both individually and as members of the community to the ritual of making art to add spirtuality, heal, energize and empower them. The organization developed and implemented sustainable public art projects that speak to the needs of specific communities and to the public at large in the greater boston area.
$722,677 spent$50,117 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $722,677.
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 2022 to 2023, from $458k to $773k (+69%).
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: 2020 14% · 2021 10% · 2022 8% · 2023 22% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Dr Rohit Chandra
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $70k → $188k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS 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
SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% 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 SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 62% · 2019 87% · 2020 59% · 2021 38% · 2022 51% · 2023 48% — 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
42% of SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
64% of SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC)'s grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $636k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC) has grown faster than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC) receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $452k on record — $20k federal, $432k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$346k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$87k
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 SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS 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.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
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 SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS 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 SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC)?
- SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC) (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,758,424 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($920,384). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC) have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,758,424 in grants to SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC), 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC)?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $920,384 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS 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 18 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