Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY INC
THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,008 to it, the largest being MOVEMENT ARTS CREATION STUDIO INC ($35,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $175k
- Net assets
- $60k
What The Center for the Arts at the Armory Inc does
Mission
To provide free and affordably-priced space for arts, cultural, and community events and programming, and thereby bring diverse audiences together, enrich and transform lives, and promote the creative economy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization showcases a wide range of visual arts, dance, theater, and musical performances as well as community events.see fundraising events.
$1,109,168 spent$1,050,447 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,109,168.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $250k to $532k (+113%).
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 79% · 2022 47% · 2023 9% · 2024 35% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY 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. 3 of the last 6 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
Stephanie Scherpf
CEO/co-director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $10k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY 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
THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
39% 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 CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 66% · 2022 48% · 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. 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
25% of THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
68% of THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY 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. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY 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 THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY INC?
- THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,008 to it, the largest being MOVEMENT ARTS CREATION STUDIO INC ($35,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $175,008 in grants to THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY INC?
- MOVEMENT ARTS CREATION STUDIO INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 16 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