Massachusetts · Nonprofit
TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ARTS
TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ARTS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,700 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $-37906
What Trust for African Rock Arts does
Mission
Tara is committed to recording the rich rock art heritage of the african continent, to making this information widely accessible and, to the extent possible, safeguarding those sites most threatened by humans and nature. To achieve its mission, tara works closely with communities where rock art is found as well as with national and international heritage bodies including the unesco world heritage centre.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Educational safaris, such as this one to algeria, are part of taras rock art awareness, knowledge dissemination and survey activities. Such trips provide tara with the opportunity to educate, monitor sites and survey new sites.
$47,180 spent94% of program spendingThe us ambassadors fund for cultural preservation provided funding for tara to partner with local heritage professionals, community members and a digital recording foundation, factum, to document ancient rock monoliths in the cross river region of nigeria. The results were publicized in literature, exhibitions and in educational venues both locally and outside nigeria.
$1,476 spent3% of program spendingThe samburu rock art project: this educational and cultural preservation project helps support local samburu communities to enable them to safeguard their rock art tradition. Tara partnered with linnaeus university, the kenya national museums and local ngo, empower the northern frontier to hold a rock art conference and further rock art training for local samburu communities.
$1,730 spent3% of program spendingOther various programs
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,386.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $36k to $9k (−76%).
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.
44% of TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ARTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% 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.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $6k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ARTS’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
TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
99% 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 TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
61% of TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ARTS'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ARTS
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.
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ARTS?
- TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ARTS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,700 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $14,700 in grants to TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ARTS.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ARTS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ARTS 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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