Massachusetts · Nonprofit
The Art Complex Inc
The Art Complex Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,407,467 to it, the largest being CONFLUENCE FOUNDATION ($3,167,467). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Greater Plymouth County Inlocal
- Hyde Park Art Centerportfolio match
- Participant Incportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $80k.
From the IRS filings of The Art Complex Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
The Art Complex Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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: 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 75% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
The Art Complex Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Greater Plymouth County InlocalMA · funds 35 organizations near you
- Hyde Park Art Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Participant Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michael Asher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Teiger Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leon Smith Polk Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Burning Man Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Via Art Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Al Held Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelmportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiespace Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding The Art Complex Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3k
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 The Art Complex Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Art Complex 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Art Complex Inc?
- The Art Complex Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,407,467 to it, the largest being CONFLUENCE FOUNDATION ($3,167,467). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Art Complex Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,407,467 in grants to The Art Complex Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Art Complex Inc?
- CONFLUENCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,167,467 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Art Complex 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.
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 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing