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VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC

VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,882 to it, the largest being THE DOBBINS FOUNDATION CO MICHELE DODGE DIRECTOR ($149,252). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$822k
Revenue FY2025
9
Funders on record
$229k
Grants received
$3.8M
Net assets
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%

Against its field

VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC has grown faster than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($350k) Expenses 100 ($324k) Net assets 100 ($3.8M)2018 Revenue 137 ($481k) Expenses 117 ($380k) Net assets 103 ($3.9M)2019 Revenue 107 ($374k) Expenses 121 ($391k) Net assets 102 ($3.9M)2020 Revenue 82 ($288k) Expenses 105 ($341k) Net assets 101 ($3.8M)2021 Revenue 133 ($467k) Expenses 128 ($415k) Net assets 102 ($3.9M)2022 Revenue 104 ($364k) Expenses 129 ($419k) Net assets 101 ($3.8M)2023 Revenue 131 ($459k) Expenses 163 ($528k) Net assets 99 ($3.7M)2024 Revenue 266 ($931k) Expenses 219 ($710k) Net assets 105 ($4.0M)2025 Revenue 235 ($822k) Expenses 290 ($939k) Net assets 102 ($3.8M)
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Revenue (235)Expenses (290)Net assets (102)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2018 34% · 2020 10% · 2021 7% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

53% of VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
17
$101k
18
$17k
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$53k
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$52k
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$55k
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$69k
23
$220k
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$117k
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1.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $54k → $20k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)17% 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 VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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

VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

65%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 91% · 2019 62% · 2020 61% · 2021 68% · 2022 90% · 2023 89%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

43% of VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION 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

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

93% of VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
CT

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $147k on record.

State$147k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$147k

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 VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 14%Fundraising 5%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION 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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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 VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC?
VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,882 to it, the largest being THE DOBBINS FOUNDATION CO MICHELE DODGE DIRECTOR ($149,252). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $228,882 in grants to VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC?
THE DOBBINS FOUNDATION CO MICHELE DODGE DIRECTOR is the largest funder on record, with $149,252 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9funders 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