Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY INC
HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,740 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $94k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $159k
What High Spirit East Community Inc does
Mission
High Spirit East Community Inc is building an accessible integrated work/life neighborhood for young adults with intellectual, development and physical disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Clubhouse free Saturday Program - In 2025 we continued the Clubhouse to offer an opportunity for connection, meaningful skill building, joy and fulfillment for people living with disabilities ages 18 and older. These inclusive events provide much needed time to be with peers, which becomes difficult after turning age 22 when school ends. Clubhouse session activities included group cooking sessions, making a radio show, board game sessions, creating crafts, and field trips in the community (shopping, coffeeshops, museums). Events were free though donations were encouraged to help us cover the cost of materials. In 2025, we held 23 clubhouse events (~biweekly) with 50% growth year over year in the number of participants. Learn more at https://highspiriteast.org/the-clubhouse-saturday-program/.
$3,214 spent70% of program spendingWe hosted 16 free community outreach and advocacy events to raise awareness of the dire need for accessible housing and programs for the severely disabled. These events included a screening of the documentary Raising Bar at LoveLane. Webinars with parents to share this innovative model for living. Participation and support of the groundbreaking work of High Spirit Advisory to influence state legislators and agencies to adopt integrated/work life communities as an official model eligible for state support.
$0 spent0% of program spendingLand search for our permanent home: We replied to a Request for Information to a town seeking to host a disabilities community. We presented to the town's subcommittee. The RFI included an operating budget, pro-forma, site plan and drawings, details of the operating systems and strategic plan. This was accepted by the town who will put out an RFP in 2026. Additionally we are actively reviewing other eligible properties within the 495 ring. We presented to the Wellesley Town Selection Board three times including a meeting at Mass Bay Community College to raise awareness of our intent to build an integrated work/life community locally and presenting this model as an innovative use of town surplus land.
$1,360 spentof which $27,000 as grants$66,868 earned by the program30% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,574.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $77k to $164k (+111%).
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.
100% of HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY 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
HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY INC.
“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
100% of HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k 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
HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY INC
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY 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 HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY INC?
- HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,740 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $57,740 in grants to HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY INC?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGH SPIRIT EAST COMMUNITY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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