Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT INC
CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $447,100 to it, the largest being NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($312,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $447k
- Net assets
- $335k
What Charles Houston Cultural Project Inc does
Mission
Charles houston is a community-based organization, that uses research, education, advocacy, and cultural arts to address current racial disparities and help to create a safe and healthy sense of place and belonging. We fulfill our mission through original programming and collaboration with individuals, local, state and national groups, educational institutions, and organizations who share our philosophy and vision.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For one of our programs, the black excellence academy, where a child's potential for excellence is recognized and developed, we serve as their fiscal agent.
$153,473 spent$201,487 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $153,473.
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.
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 $132k to $249k (+89%).
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.
98% of CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT 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. 0 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $45k → $49k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
100% 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 CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 89% · 2022 89% · 2023 40% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT 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. $93k 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
CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $293k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$293k
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 CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT 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 CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT INC?
- CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $447,100 to it, the largest being NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($312,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $447,100 in grants to CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT INC?
- NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $312,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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