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HARBORLIGHT NURSERY SCHOOL INC

HARBORLIGHT NURSERY SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $144 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($144). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$351k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$144
Net assets
$146k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Harborlight Nursery School Inc does

Mission

To establish and conduct one or more nursery schools and other educational programs for children of pre-school age; to operate, conduct, and provide day care services for the recreation, education, and general socialization of children; and to establish and confer scholarships upon pre-school age children unable to afford the normal charges for nursery school day care or related educational services.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide pre-school care and teaching for approximately 50 children

    $192,413 spent$352,700 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $192,413.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($327k) Expenses 100 ($352k) Net assets 100 ($104k)2019 Revenue 87 ($284k) Expenses 96 ($338k) Net assets 48 ($50k)2020 Revenue 91 ($298k) Expenses 89 ($312k) Net assets 34 ($35k)2021 Revenue 55 ($179k) Expenses 75 ($265k) Net assets 3 ($3k)2022 Revenue 94 ($308k) Expenses 70 ($248k) Net assets 104 ($107k)2023 Revenue 100 ($326k) Expenses 88 ($311k) Net assets 119 ($123k)2024 Revenue 107 ($351k) Expenses 93 ($328k) Net assets 141 ($146k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (107)Expenses (93)Net assets (141)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 2019 to 2020, from $97k to $203k (+110%).

$138k
$97k
$203k
$177k
$226k
$260k
$296k
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 30% · 2023 31% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

21% of HARBORLIGHT NURSERY SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$25k
’18
−$54k
’19
−$14k
’20
−$86k
’21
$60k
’22
$15k
’23
$23k
’24
10
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

Billie Jean Chouinard

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed11911991110
Joined·+2+3+0+4+5+1
No longer listed·412432
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $32 → $56.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 HARBORLIGHT NURSERY 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.

Where its funders are

100% of HARBORLIGHT NURSERY 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $144 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

HARBORLIGHT NURSERY SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve10.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 38%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • First Baptist Church in Beverly · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARBORLIGHT NURSERY SCHOOL 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 HARBORLIGHT NURSERY SCHOOL INC?
HARBORLIGHT NURSERY SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $144 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($144). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HARBORLIGHT NURSERY SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $144 in grants to HARBORLIGHT NURSERY SCHOOL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HARBORLIGHT NURSERY SCHOOL INC?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $144 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HARBORLIGHT NURSERY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 1 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