Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC
FRIENDS OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,577 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($52,050). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $5
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Friends of Charlestown High School Inc does
Mission
Friends of charlestown high school, inc. (fochs, inc.) is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, including, without limitation, to enrich, enhance and support the educational programs of charlestown high school, a public high school in boston, massachusetts and to build and maintain relationships among the alumni and friends of charlestown high school as well as promote and enhance the charlestown community itself.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Friends of charlestown high school, inc. Was a thought and financial partner with charlestown high school to support the school's health and wellness activities, athletics, and community building. Through the solicitation of donations and advocating for increased school-community interaction, fochs, inc. Supported all of the roughly 850 students who attend charlestown high school.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $51k to $32k (−37%).
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.
100% of FRIENDS OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $52k → $20k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 FRIENDS OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL 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
FRIENDS OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
80% 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 FRIENDS OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
52% of FRIENDS OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL 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 $48k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FRIENDS OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC's revenue fell 100% between 2018 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,195 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like FRIENDS OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC
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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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC?
- FRIENDS OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,577 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($52,050). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $99,577 in grants to FRIENDS OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $52,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL 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 FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), 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