Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HARVARD CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE
HARVARD CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,500 to it, the largest being FURTHER FORWARD FOUNDATION INC ($18,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $119k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $71k
What Harvard Cultural Collaborative does
Mission
Educational, cultural, artistic enrichment of residents
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
8th annual chamber music festival. 20 musicians received coaching from four professional musicians for the week followed by a concert at the end of the week attended by 100 concert goers. All coaching sessions were open to the public. Musicians were housed by local families and fed by volunteers.
$11,781 spentof which $2,500 as grants54% of program spendingFivesparks Theatre. There were two plays, each with six performances, presented during the year. We drew theatre goers from many communities, some as far away as the Boston area. Audience total was over 500. We will continue to expand the theatre program.
$4,720 spentof which $250 as grants22% of program spendingFugitive Productions Music Series. We offered four live music events each with a different genre. The musicians were professionals who were very well received by diverse audiences. Attendance was on average 45 people per event. We will continue to offer a music series for the coming year.
$5,230 spentof which $6,000 as grants24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,731.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $51k to $66k (+28%).
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.
74% of HARVARD CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $5k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE’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 CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 84% · 2019 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
HARVARD CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.
Against its field
HARVARD CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding HARVARD CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$26k
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 HARVARD CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARVARD CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE: 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 HARVARD CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE?
- HARVARD CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,500 to it, the largest being FURTHER FORWARD FOUNDATION INC ($18,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HARVARD CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $35,500 in grants to HARVARD CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARVARD CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE?
- FURTHER FORWARD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARVARD CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE 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 2021–2025), 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