Massachusetts · Nonprofit
UNBOUND VISUAL ARTS
UNBOUND VISUAL ARTS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,368 to it, the largest being THE HAMILTON COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $90k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $34k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Unbound Visual Arts does
Mission
Unbound Visual Arts (UVA) highlights Greater Boston artists through exhibits and programs that foster community engagement and social change through innovative curatorial strategies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Nine (9) exhibits were organized and presented in two galleries by Unbound Visual Arts on various curatorial themes. 82 local artists participated. There were 923 gallery visitors.
$10,000 spentof which $12,300 as grants100% of program spendingThere were 15 public programs and events, which included artist talks, performances, workshops, and receptions.
$0 spent0% of program spendingCommunity partnerships - There were three: Allston-Brighton Health Collaborative, Allston-Brighton Community Plan, and Boston University.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,000.
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 2021 to 2022, from $7k to $17k (+160%).
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.
99% of UNBOUND VISUAL ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $4k → $8k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 UNBOUND VISUAL 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
UNBOUND VISUAL ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
35% 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 UNBOUND VISUAL ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of UNBOUND VISUAL ARTS's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
UNBOUND VISUAL ARTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding UNBOUND VISUAL ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$19k
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 UNBOUND VISUAL 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
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 UNBOUND VISUAL ARTS: 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 UNBOUND VISUAL ARTS?
- UNBOUND VISUAL ARTS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,368 to it, the largest being THE HAMILTON COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNBOUND VISUAL ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $34,368 in grants to UNBOUND VISUAL ARTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNBOUND VISUAL ARTS?
- THE HAMILTON COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNBOUND VISUAL 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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