Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $317,391 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($113,140). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $300k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $317k
- Net assets
- $276k
What Harvard Business School Association of Boston does
Mission
The Harvard Business School Association of Boston is a non profit organization formed in 1923 as an alumni association. The association is dedicated to cooperating with and promoting the interests of the harvard business school and its alumni.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Cooperating with and promoting the interests of the harvard business school and its alumni, providing professors an opportunity to share their research, facilitating alumni forums, and hosting various events.
$272,716 spent$233,738 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $272,716.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $27k → $18k.
10 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON’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
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 59% · 2019 71% · 2020 42% · 2021 41% · 2022 23% · 2023 72% — 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.
How long its funders stay
14% of HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
96% of HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $305k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON?
- HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $317,391 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($113,140). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $317,391 in grants to HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $113,140 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 13 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