Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HARVARD DEBATE INCORPORATED
HARVARD DEBATE INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,648 to it, the largest being LYNDA M GOLDSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $456k
- Net assets
- $786k
What Harvard Debate Incorporated does
Mission
To provide students the opportunity to enhance their intellectual and rhetorical skills through competitive debate.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Organizing the harvard high school speech and debate tournament which affords participants the highest quality of competition available. Over 6,000 students from over 40 states and 20 countries attended. During fy 2025, the organization also held the college tournament. This tournament drew 200 total participants, including debaters and coaches.
$513,664 spent$739,399 earned by the program21% of program spendingProviding summer and various online debate workshops - instruction in traditional and contemporary debate styles, public forum debate styles, and instruction in congressional debate theory and strategy.
$1,930,531 spentof which $74,314 as grants$2,008,693 earned by the program79% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,444,195.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $2.4M (+67%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of HARVARD DEBATE INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Arthur Rebrovick
President/CEO
Board chair
Greg Rosenbaum
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $21k → $58.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 DEBATE INCORPORATED’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 DEBATE INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
45% 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 DEBATE INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 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
HARVARD DEBATE INCORPORATED draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 DEBATE INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HARVARD DEBATE INCORPORATED
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARVARD DEBATE INCORPORATED: 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 DEBATE INCORPORATED?
- HARVARD DEBATE INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,648 to it, the largest being LYNDA M GOLDSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HARVARD DEBATE INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $455,648 in grants to HARVARD DEBATE INCORPORATED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARVARD DEBATE INCORPORATED?
- LYNDA M GOLDSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARVARD DEBATE INCORPORATED 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.
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 5 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