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AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS
AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,481,758 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($520,930). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Agassiz Village Founded by Mr & Mrs Harry E Burroughs does
Mission
See schedule oagassiz village's mission is to prepare youth for life's journey by providing enriching, educational, and transformative experiences to children and teens from under resourced communities. Founded in 1935, agassiz village ensures that young people who face economic hardship, systemic barriers, and trauma have access to a safe, supportive, and joyful environment where they can build confidence, develop leadership skills, and discover their strengths.as part of this mission, agassiz village operates a 330 acre overnight summer camp in poland, maine; delivers year round college and career readiness programming; provides workforce development opportunities for teens; and partners with schools and community organizations to close opportunity gaps. The form 990 is one of several reports the organization makes available each year. Agassiz village encourages it to be read alongside the audited financial statements, which provide additional financial context.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Agassiz village operates a 330-acre overnight summer enrichment camp serving approximately 475 children and teens ages 817 from underresourced communities across greater boston and maine. The program provides a safe, structured, and joyful environment where youth build confidence, independence, and socialemotional skills through handson learning and outdoor adventure. In addition to our flagship summer enrichment camp, agassiz village delivers the ithrive summer leadership program for teens and the yearround ithrive college and career readiness program, creating a comprehensive continuum of support from childhood through early adulthood.in 2025, agassiz village continued to expand access to high quality youth development programming while rebuilding to pre pandemic participation levels. Nearly 500 children and teens engaged in summer programming, with more than 98% coming from families living at or below 300% of the federal poverty level.program highlights include: - enhanced sel and mental health supports, including increased staff training, expanded trauma informed practices, and dedicated behavioral support roles. - growth in the ithrive leadership program, with teens…
$1,250,035 spent$55,539 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,250,035.
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 $1.6M to $5.2M (+217%).
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: 2021 9% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Lisa Carter
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $313k → $495k.
10 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
42% 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 AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 29% · 2019 28% · 2020 39% · 2021 19% · 2022 21% · 2023 13% — 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
48% of AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
50% of AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $872k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS?
- AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,481,758 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($520,930). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $3,481,758 in grants to AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $520,930 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS 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 55 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