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Clemente Course in the Humanities Inc

Clemente Course in the Humanities Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $843,577 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($338,300). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$835k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$844k
Net assets
$746k
12/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Clemente Course in the Humanities Inc does

Mission

CCH provides a free college humanities education program to adults facing economic hardship, thereby empowering them to further their education and careers, become more effective self-advocates, and engage more effectively in their communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. CCH provides program support to over 30 Clemente courses around the U.S., including curriculum development, arrangement for college credits, program outreach, program evaluation, professional development, research, fund-raising support, and direct finanicial support.

    $315,345 spentof which $1,493 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $315,345.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($256k) Expenses 100 ($161k) Net assets 100 ($255k)2018 Revenue 89 ($228k) Expenses 125 ($201k) Net assets 111 ($283k)2019 Revenue 153 ($391k) Expenses 188 ($303k) Net assets 145 ($371k)2021 Revenue 123 ($315k) Expenses 181 ($291k) Net assets 102 ($260k)2022 Revenue 173 ($443k) Expenses 180 ($289k) Net assets 162 ($413k)2023 Revenue 110 ($281k) Expenses 223 ($358k) Net assets 132 ($336k)2024 Revenue 152 ($390k) Expenses 264 ($424k) Net assets 118 ($301k)2025 Revenue 326 ($835k) Expenses 272 ($437k) Net assets 292 ($746k)
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Revenue (326)Expenses (272)Net assets (292)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 2024 to 2025, from $303k to $756k (+150%).

$258k
$286k
$375k
$284k
$422k
$345k
$303k
$756k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 20% · 2019 29% · 2021 33% · 2022 22% · 2024 23% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of Clemente Course in the Humanities Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$96k
’17
$27k
’18
$88k
’19
$23k
’21
$153k
’22
−$77k
’23
−$35k
’24
$398k
’25
16
months of
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

Dr Aaron Rosen

Executive Director

Board chair

James S Shorris

President, Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed1011111313141311
Joined·+2+1·+1+2+3+2
No longer listed·11·1144
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $84k → $93k.

7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Clemente Course in the Humanities 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

Clemente Course in the Humanities Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

59% 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 Clemente Course in the Humanities Inc.

40%
largest funder
61%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 43% · 2019 31% · 2020 89% · 2021 32% · 2022 48% · 2023 54% — 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

29% of Clemente Course in the Humanities Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

59% of Clemente Course in the Humanities 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 $346k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 9 states.

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
KY
TN
NC

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

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’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $497k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Clemente Course in the Humanities Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin48% · top quartile
Months of reserve16.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Clemente Course in the Humanities Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $487k on record.

Federal$487k
grants $487kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$487k

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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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 18%Fundraising 10%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

71%

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 Clemente Course in the Humanities Inc?
Clemente Course in the Humanities Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $843,577 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($338,300). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Clemente Course in the Humanities Inc have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $843,577 in grants to Clemente Course in the Humanities Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Clemente Course in the Humanities Inc?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $338,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Clemente Course in the Humanities 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.

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 20 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