Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD
THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $824,099 to it, the largest being DONALD C MCGRAW FOUNDATION INC ($160,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $775k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $824k
- Net assets
- $780k
What The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod does
Mission
At afcc, our mission is to foster and enhance a dynamic and inclusive arts and cultural landscape accessible to all within the region. As the designated local arts agency (laa) for barnstable county, we serve as the pivotal hub for cultivating and supporting cape cod's rich cultural tapestry. Our organization operates as the overarching cultural steward, dedicated to empowering all artists, promoting diverse art forms, and preserving cultural and historical legacies. We are committed to forging connections between the region's cultural assets, the business community, lawmakers, visitors, and residents alike, fostering a vibrant and interconnected cultural ecosystem for the enrichment of our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod (afcc) empowers artists and enriches the cultural landscape of the region. Through financial assistance and support for arts programming, afcc fosters creativity and community engagement. Each year, afcc awards grants to individual artists and cultural organizations, while its creative exchange program offers professional development opportunities. Additionally, afcc access ensures underserved students have access to arts activities, promoting confidence, creativity, and social connections.
$596,007 spent$7,010 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $596,007.
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 2019 to 2020, from $434k to $744k (+71%).
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: 2017 16% · 2019 16% · 2020 11% · 2021 22% · 2022 28% · 2023 23% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $25k → $91k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD’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 ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
40% 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 THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 26% · 2019 30% · 2020 32% · 2021 33% · 2022 40% · 2023 22% — 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
63% of THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD'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
57% of THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $248k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $820k on record — $180k federal, $640k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$180k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$640k
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 ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD?
- THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $824,099 to it, the largest being DONALD C MCGRAW FOUNDATION INC ($160,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $824,099 in grants to THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD?
- DONALD C MCGRAW FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD 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.
Play a game about who funds Arts Foundation of Cape Cod →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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