Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION
THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,330 to it, the largest being SILVER MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS ($55,140). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $204k
- Net assets
- $91k
What The Artist Book Foundation does
Mission
The Artist Book Foundation Tabf is a nonprofit art book publisher that documents and celebrates artists lives and work through publications exhibitions events and book donations that strive to promote universal access to the visual arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
1 With the sale of TABFs book distributor NBN TABF has changed distributors to Ingram Publisher Services IPS for both print and digital book. 2 TABF has launched a new web platform with direct digital epub sales.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Documentation and celebration of the works of artists lives and work through publications exhibitions events and book donations that strive to promote universal access to the visual arts.
$124,290 spent100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $124,290.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $470k to $257k (−45%).
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 15% · 2022 15% · 2023 33% · 2024 0% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION’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. 4 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.
Chief executive
Leslie Pell van Breen
Executive Director
Board chair
Rena Zurofsky
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $10k.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION’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
THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 60% · 2021 73% · 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 8% 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
THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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.
Against its field
THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$50k
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 ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION: 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 THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION?
- THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,330 to it, the largest being SILVER MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS ($55,140). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $204,330 in grants to THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION?
- SILVER MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $55,140 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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