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BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC

BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,750 to it, the largest being MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC ($40,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$38k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$139k
Net assets
$38k
5/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Bread and Roses Heritage Committee Inc does

Mission

To organize the annual Bread and Roses Labor Day Festival that celebrates Lawrence's history and diverse cultures through music, theatre, and dance. To recognize, commemorate, inform, and share the labor history and social justice legacy of Lawrence's 1912 Bread & Roses strike with Lawrence's present-day residents and people worldwide.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The Bread & Roses Festival is a free one day open-air celebration that occurs every labor day. The program that makes up the festival has had a continual history of success in integrating music, art, and crafts from all the individual communities that make up the larger community of Lawrence and draws 4,000 to 7,000 visitors. The Bread & Roses festival is dedicated to accessibility for all, providing ASL interpreters and accomodations for the handicapped.

    $42,752 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,752.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue -23 ($-2563) Expenses 100 ($6k) Net assets 100 ($17k)2022 Revenue 100 ($11k) Expenses 322 ($18k) Net assets 60 ($10k)2023 Revenue 423 ($47k) Expenses 416 ($23k) Net assets 198 ($34k)2024 Revenue 340 ($38k) Expenses 607 ($34k) Net assets 221 ($38k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (340)Expenses (607)Net assets (221)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $10k to $34k (+229%).

$17k
$10k
$34k
$38k
2021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’21
−$7k
’22
$24k
’23
$4k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $65k.

1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE 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

BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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

36% 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 BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC.

29%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 42% · 2019 42% · 2020 42% · 2021 37% · 2022 53% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.

“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

100% of BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

100% of BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)84% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC?
BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,750 to it, the largest being MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC ($40,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $138,750 in grants to BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC?
MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
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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 2021–2024), and the filings of 8 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