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TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC

TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,175,122 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($969,725). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$2.3M
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$6.7M
15/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill Inc does

Mission

Truro center for the arts at castle hill has served a single purpose for more than 40 years: to create an inclusive and supportive arts community by providing a wide range of artistic experiences to students at all levels of ability. Energized by a faculty of distinguished artists and writers and enlivened by a welcoming and engaging community, castle hill offers workshops, lectures, exhibitions, performances, special events and short-term artist residencies. Located in an exquisitely beautiful rural setting, castle hill provides unique and inspiring learning experiences to all who come here.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing a wide range of instruction in the arts for adults and children. Classes are offered at castle hill and through an outreach program with local public schools.

    $1,355,995 spent$748,484 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,355,995.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($751k) Net assets 100 ($4.5M)2021 Revenue 148 ($1.6M) Expenses 176 ($1.3M) Net assets 109 ($4.9M)2022 Revenue 218 ($2.4M) Expenses 193 ($1.5M) Net assets 128 ($5.8M)2023 Revenue 134 ($1.5M) Expenses 195 ($1.5M) Net assets 131 ($5.9M)2024 Revenue 207 ($2.3M) Expenses 221 ($1.7M) Net assets 148 ($6.7M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (207)Expenses (221)Net assets (148)Peer revenue range

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 $6.2M to $7.2M (+16%).

$5.0M
$5.3M
$6.1M
$6.2M
$7.2M
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 19% · 2022 6% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

62% of TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$366k
’20
$328k
’21
$986k
’22
$35k
’23
$656k
’24
3.8
months of
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed2528262319
Joined·+8+2+0+1
No longer listed·5435
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $55k → $156k.

13 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL 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

TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

66% 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 TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC.

45%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 38% · 2019 41% · 2020 69% · 2021 52% · 2022 60% · 2023 43% — 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.

How long its funders stay

33% of TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

55% of TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $971k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

NH
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 15%Fundraising 3%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC?
TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,175,122 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($969,725). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,175,122 in grants to TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $969,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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