Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS INC
WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,606,761 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($750,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $693k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $247k
What White Snake Projects Inc does
Mission
White snake projects, is an activist opera company dedicated to creating original opera of the highest production values combined with a social conscience. Its mission is to uplift the voices of historically marginalized communities and be a platform for composers and writers who may otherwise never be heard. Founded by iconoclasts charles and cerise jacobs, the company has continued the mission of the white snake under cerise's guidance following charles's death, investing in american composers adept at telling the myth-based stories that live in our collective imaginations through music. As a socially active organization, white snake projects believes in making art accessible to all, and commits to providing free tickets to anyone who cannot afford one.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
As a socially active organization, white snake projects believes in making art accessible to all, and commits to providing free tickets to anyone who cannot afford one.
$468,151 spent$22,268 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $468,151.
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.
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 $51k to $179k (+249%).
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.
97% of WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Daniel P Dain
Chairperson/director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $14k → $580k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS 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
WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 89% · 2022 92% · 2023 65% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
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
WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS INC draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $194k 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
WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $342k on record — $316k federal, $26k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$316k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$26k
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 WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS INC
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.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
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 WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS INC?
- WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,606,761 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($750,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,606,761 in grants to WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing