Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS INC
WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $67,000 to it, the largest being ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ($67,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Boston After School & Beyond Inclocal
- Davis Publications Charitable Trustportfolio match
- The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 28% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Boston After School & Beyond InclocalMA · funds 155 organizations near you
- Davis Publications Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Arts Strategies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rdk Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyman Gordonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York Council of Nonprofits Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nathaniel Wheeler Tua-Worcportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cricket Fdn Jennifer L Grigg Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Maurer Family Foundationportfolio 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.
Government funding WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.5M
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 WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS 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.
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 WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS INC?
- WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $67,000 to it, the largest being ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ($67,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $67,000 in grants to WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS INC?
- ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC is the largest funder on record, with $67,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY FOR THE ARTS 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing