Massachusetts · Nonprofit
826 BOSTON INC
826 BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,834,832 to it, the largest being Calderwood Charitable Foundation ($2,598,183). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 108
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What 826 Boston Inc does
Mission
826 boston is a nonprofit writing, tutoring, and publishing organization where students in grades k-12 and beyond can share their stories, amplify their voices, and develop as leaders in school and in life. 826 boston is part of a network of nine 826 chapters across the country co-founded by author dave eggers and educator ninive calegari. Since 2007, 826 boston has worked with more than 30,000 students and hundreds of teachers, and has published dozens of high-quality, professionally designed collections of student writing. 826 boston's programs, offered free of charge, are rooted in the understanding that great leaps in learning can occur with individualized attention, and that writing skills are fundamental to future success. These programs serve students throughout the city of boston and include publishing projects, after-school tutoring, writing workshops, field trips, classroom-based collaborations, stem-based writing initiatives, writers' rooms, and college essay support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule o for description of programs and program accomplishments.
$2,771,220 spentof which $39,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,771,220.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.5M to $5.3M (+248%).
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: 2019 44% · 2020 32% · 2021 19% · 2022 28% · 2023 14% · 2024 11% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of 826 BOSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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.
Chief executive
Corey Yarbrough
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $286k → $1.3M.
18 of 108 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 826 BOSTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 108 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
826 BOSTON INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
61% 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 826 BOSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 41% · 2019 53% · 2020 31% · 2021 32% · 2022 37% · 2023 19% — 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.
How long its funders stay
58% of 826 BOSTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
85% of 826 BOSTON INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
826 BOSTON INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding 826 BOSTON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $332k on record — $55k federal, $277k state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$30k
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$277k
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.
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 826 BOSTON 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 826 BOSTON INC?
- 826 BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,834,832 to it, the largest being Calderwood Charitable Foundation ($2,598,183). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 826 BOSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 108 organizations giving $13,834,832 in grants to 826 BOSTON INC, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 826 BOSTON INC?
- Calderwood Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,598,183 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 826 BOSTON 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 108 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