Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC
THE DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,750 to it, the largest being AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $375k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $267k
- Net assets
- $763k
What The Downtown Amherst Foundation Inc does
Mission
Building and creating culture, beauty and programming in downtown amherst to ensure a thriving, beautiful and diverse cultural college community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Building and creating culture, beauty and programming in downtown amherst to ensure a thriving, beautiful and diverse cultural college community.
$430,285 spent$271,842 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $430,285.
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 2022 to 2023, from $722k to $839k (+16%).
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: 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of THE DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
2020 → 2022: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $41k → $156k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION 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 DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 44% · 2021 100% · 2022 64% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
94% of THE DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION 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. $67k 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 DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$55k
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 DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION 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
98% 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 DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION 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 DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC?
- THE DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,750 to it, the largest being AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $266,750 in grants to THE DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC?
- AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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