Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE STUDIO 878 TRUST
THE STUDIO 878 TRUST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,800 to it, the largest being ONE STEP FORWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ROBERT G BANNISH CLERK ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE STUDIO 878 TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,119 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,119 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
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.
- Cape & Coast Bank Foundationlocal
- Dance Service New York City Incportfolio match
- The International Association of Blacks in Danceportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
100% of THE STUDIO 878 TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $150.
From the IRS filings of THE STUDIO 878 TRUST’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 STUDIO 878 TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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: 2019 53% · 2020 100% — 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
52% of THE STUDIO 878 TRUST's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Cape & Coast Bank FoundationlocalMA · funds 59 organizations near you
- Dance Service New York City Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The International Association of Blacks in Danceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joyce Theater Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music & Dance Foundation Inc Co Abruzzo Accounting LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harkness Foundation for Dance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Danceusaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Shore Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bronx Council on the Arts Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Dance Movementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas 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.
Organizations like THE STUDIO 878 TRUST
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE STUDIO 878 TRUST: 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 STUDIO 878 TRUST?
- THE STUDIO 878 TRUST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,800 to it, the largest being ONE STEP FORWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ROBERT G BANNISH CLERK ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE STUDIO 878 TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $5,800 in grants to THE STUDIO 878 TRUST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE STUDIO 878 TRUST?
- ONE STEP FORWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ROBERT G BANNISH CLERK is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE STUDIO 878 TRUST 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing