Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY
HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,001,182 to it, the largest being FIDELITY NON-PROFIT MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION ($6,000,000). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $39M
What Handel and Haydn Society does
Mission
The Handel and Haydn Society's mission is to perform baroque and classical music at the highest levels of artistic excellance and to share that music with as large and diverse an audience as possible. The society is equally dedicated to fostering the love, knowledge, and performance of music among young people, especially those in under-served schools and communities, through the karen s. And george d. Levy educational outreach program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Handel and Haydn Society's 2023-24 season featured renowned conductors and professional musicians in innovative, interdisciplinary programs that showcased repertoire of the baroque and classical eras. H+h's period instrument orchestra includes 24 tenured musicians and a pool of 50 additional first-call players, all specially trained in the historically informed performance of music from late 17th through early 19th centuries. The 70 member professional h+h chorus is equally accomplished and features some of the most talented singers on the east coast. These artists perform more than 20 concerts each year including the annual performance of handel's messiah at symphony hall, a 168-year-old tradition. The society's concert series reaches 35,000 audience members annually.
$5,630,325 spent$1,761,801 earned by the program88% of program spendingThe Handel and Haydn Society's 33-year-old karen s. And george levy educational outreach program provides high-caliber, participatory and creative musical education for 10,000 students in grades 3-12 in underserved and low-income boston and greater boston communities each year. The educational outreach program includes three; components: in-school performances, participatory youth concerts, and the vocal apprenticeship program, which together cover the full spectrum of vocal education and offer a graduated approach to music education. Since 1984, program has served more than 100,000 students.
$735,996 spent$180,752 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,366,321.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $19M to $29M (+54%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 7% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Robert N Shapiro
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $691k → $4.1M.
14 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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
HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 53% · 2019 51% · 2020 43% · 2021 39% · 2022 44% · 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
55% of HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
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
90% of HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY's funding base is broadening — from 28 funders to 38 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $958k on record — $345k federal, $613k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$345k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$613k
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 HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY?
- HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,001,182 to it, the largest being FIDELITY NON-PROFIT MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION ($6,000,000). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $18,001,182 in grants to HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY?
- FIDELITY NON-PROFIT MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 80 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing