Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Around Hear Inc
Around Hear Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Around Hear Inc does
Mission
Around Hear Inc. the Corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501 c3 of the Internal Revenue Code as in effect now or as it may be hereafter be amended or under any successor section thereto the Code and regulations promulgated thereunder. The purposes of the Corporation include but are net limited to collaboration with public housing facilities local learning centers local social service organizations and cornmunity-onented artists to deliver free chamber music concert series and music education activities to people of all ages backgrounds and dispositions and conducting such other activities and programs that may be carried out by a corporation organized under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 180 and described in Section 501c3 of the Code.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Free Chamber Music Concerts: A Four unique hourlong public concerts at the Mystic Activity Center each with 3-6 performers audience total 200. B Six concerts for Healey School 3rd and 4th graders one concert for Mystic Learning Youth audience total 200. C Nine concerts for seniors and people with disabilities at Brady Towers Properzi Manor and Bryant Manor audience total 150. TOTAL of A B and C: Twenty concerts with a total audience of approximately 550 people.
$30,739 spent86% of program spendingFree Music Education Programming: A weekly ninety-minute violin class 34 weeks for all ages 21 total students. B weekly ninety-minute piano class 36 weeks for all ages 18 total students. C Seven jam sessions and singalongs for seniors and people with disabilities at Brady Towers and Properzi Manor approximately 80 total participants.
$4,850 spent14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,589.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Marjorie Gere
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 Around Hear 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
Around Hear Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 Around Hear Inc.
“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.
Where its funders are
71% of Around Hear Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Around Hear Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Around Hear 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 Around Hear Inc?
- Around Hear Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Around Hear Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $35,000 in grants to Around Hear Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Around Hear Inc?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Around Hear 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2 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