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HARVARD LAMPOON INC

HARVARD LAMPOON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $542,699 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($235,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$867k
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
$543k
Grants received
$148k
Net assets
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%

Against its field

HARVARD LAMPOON INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve7.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($235k) Expenses 100 ($331k) Net assets 100 ($1k)2018 Revenue 158 ($371k) Expenses 105 ($347k) Net assets 6802 ($97k)2019 Revenue 95 ($224k) Expenses 120 ($398k) Net assets 491 ($7k)2020 Revenue 68 ($160k) Expenses 50 ($166k) Net assets 305 ($4k)2021 Revenue 72 ($168k) Expenses 55 ($181k) Net assets 329 ($5k)2022 Revenue 183 ($430k) Expenses 117 ($388k) Net assets 3294 ($47k)2023 Revenue 271 ($636k) Expenses 186 ($617k) Net assets 4649 ($66k)2024 Revenue 369 ($867k) Expenses 237 ($786k) Net assets 10333 ($148k)
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Revenue (369)Expenses (237)Net assets (10333)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of HARVARD LAMPOON INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$96k
17
$24k
18
$174k
19
$6k
20
$13k
21
$42k
22
$19k
23
$81k
24
7.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $80k → $19k.

1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)43% 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 LAMPOON 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.

How concentrated its funding is

HARVARD LAMPOON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

43% 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 LAMPOON INC.

43%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 100% · 2019 44% · 2020 49% · 2021 71% · 2022 72% · 2023 53%diversifying over time.

“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

40% of HARVARD LAMPOON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

HARVARD LAMPOON INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.

NY
MA
CA
WV

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 345 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like HARVARD LAMPOON INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

48% of spending goes to programs.

Program 48%Management 52%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Harvard Lampoon Trust · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARVARD LAMPOON 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 HARVARD LAMPOON INC?
HARVARD LAMPOON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $542,699 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($235,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HARVARD LAMPOON INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $542,699 in grants to HARVARD LAMPOON INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HARVARD LAMPOON INC?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HARVARD LAMPOON 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing