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HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC

HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,008 to it, the largest being F T WEYERHAEUSER FAMILY FUND ($110,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$123k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$273k
Net assets
$191k
9/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%
01What it does

What Health Story Collaborative Inc does

Mission

By collecting, honoring and sharing stories of illness and healing, we strive to make the process of navigating illness less isolating and to empower individuals and families facing health challenges. Our belief, supported by research, is that storytelling is healing for both story sharers and listeners. Stories have the power to transform individuals as well as the healthcare system.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Healing Story Sessions: Healing Story Sessions are live story telling events founded on the belief that story sharing is healing. In preparation for these sessions, we work closely with participants to construct their stories of illness and healing, and to become confortable sharing their stories in spoken word. Participants then invite a group of supportive community members to attend their session and to witness their stories. HSC facilitated four Healing Story Sessions in 2025 with an audience of over 180 individuals.

    $20,142 spent
    38% of program spending
  2. The Opiod Project consists of 4-hour art and audio storytelling workshops where participants find a safe space to process their personal experiences through creating collages and sharing stories. These stories are audio recorded, and, together with the art, contextualize and bring to life the human costs of the epidemic. Finished work is hung in community multimedia art exhibitions where each art collage is paired with its recorded audio story. HSC faciliated four Opioid Project workshops in 2025 for 31 individuals, and their artwork was shared with hundreds of viewers.

    $20,799 spent
    39% of program spending
  3. Training: This workshop explores how storytelling can help individuals navigate illness, trauma and loss and ultimately promote well-being. The participants learn about the social scientific research on narrative identity and its associations with health and techniques for marshaling this science in the service of individual and collective health. Particiapnts learn to apply Health Story Collaborative's well-established methods in their personal and professional lives. In 2025 HSC facilitated two trainings for a total of 33 individuals.

    $9,000 spent
    17% of program spending
  4. Creative Meetups: These Creative Meetups are free monthly gatherings where participants have the opportunity to explore their creativity and self-expression. At Health Story Collaborative, we believe that artistic expression of personal stories can help individuals find hope and healing. During the year, we facilitated 24 Creative Meetups serving approximately 40 individuals. Public Presentations: We raise awareness about the therapeutic and healing benefits of storytelling for those facing health challenges. During the year, we reached nearly 1,000 individuals through 10 public presentations and engagements with various organizations and media outlets. Story Library: We maintain a publicly accessible online story library. The library contains more than 250 written stories and 119 audio stories and is accessed by more than 3,000 individuals annually.

    $2,833 spent
    5% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,774.

02The 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 ($48k) Expenses 100 ($31k) Net assets 100 ($79k)2018 Revenue 138 ($66k) Expenses 186 ($57k) Net assets 112 ($89k)2019 Revenue 135 ($65k) Expenses 183 ($56k) Net assets 123 ($97k)2020 Revenue 151 ($73k) Expenses 213 ($65k) Net assets 132 ($105k)2021 Revenue 156 ($75k) Expenses 259 ($79k) Net assets 127 ($101k)2022 Revenue 189 ($91k) Expenses 263 ($80k) Net assets 140 ($111k)2023 Revenue 330 ($158k) Expenses 329 ($100k) Net assets 213 ($169k)2024 Revenue 256 ($123k) Expenses 331 ($101k) Net assets 241 ($191k)
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Revenue (256)Expenses (331)Net assets (241)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 2022 to 2023, from $114k to $169k (+48%).

$79k
$90k
$97k
$123k
$103k
$114k
$169k
$191k
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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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

74% of HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’17
$9k
’18
$9k
’19
$7k
’20
−$4k
’21
$10k
’22
$58k
’23
$22k
’24

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Jennifer Harris

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $1k → $57k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE 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

HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

27% 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 HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC.

40%
largest funder
89%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 61% · 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 51% · 2022 39% · 2023 44% — 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

83% of HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.

MN
IL
NY
MA

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. $74k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.

State$5k
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$5k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

68%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC?
HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,008 to it, the largest being F T WEYERHAEUSER FAMILY FUND ($110,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $273,008 in grants to HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC?
F T WEYERHAEUSER FAMILY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing