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HITCHCOCK FREE ACADEMY

HITCHCOCK FREE ACADEMY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,574 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($7,550). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$340k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$9k
Net assets
$2.6M
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Hitchcock Free Academy does

Mission

The mission of the Hitchcock Free Academy is to enrich the lives of area residents of all ages by providing educational, recreational and cultural programming for residents from the towns of: brimfield, holland, wales, sturbridge and surrounding communities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Various instructional activities, classes, cultural events and community group meetings.

    $190,360 spent$77,618 earned by the program
    99% of program spending
  2. Granted college scholarships to two local residents.

    $1,500 spentof which $1,500 as grants
    1% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $191,860.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($271k) Expenses 100 ($208k) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 175 ($476k) Expenses 93 ($195k) Net assets 114 ($2.3M)2020 Revenue 138 ($374k) Expenses 75 ($157k) Net assets 125 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 171 ($463k) Expenses 102 ($213k) Net assets 138 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 103 ($279k) Expenses 128 ($267k) Net assets 115 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 81 ($220k) Expenses 146 ($304k) Net assets 124 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 125 ($340k) Expenses 150 ($313k) Net assets 131 ($2.6M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (125)Expenses (150)Net assets (131)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 2021 to 2022, from $2.7M to $2.3M (−16%).

$2.0M
$2.3M
$2.5M
$2.7M
$2.3M
$2.5M
$2.6M
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

5% of HITCHCOCK FREE ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$63k
’18
$281k
’19
$217k
’20
$250k
’21
$13k
’22
−$84k
’23
$27k
’24
5.6
months of
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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed11121311151514
Joined·+1+2+3+8+0+0
No longer listed·015401
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $104.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 HITCHCOCK FREE ACADEMY’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

HITCHCOCK FREE ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 HITCHCOCK FREE ACADEMY.

88%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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

93% of HITCHCOCK FREE ACADEMY'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. Of the $625 that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states.

MA
IA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

HITCHCOCK FREE ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve5.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 27%Fundraising 12%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

79%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HITCHCOCK FREE ACADEMY: 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 HITCHCOCK FREE ACADEMY?
HITCHCOCK FREE ACADEMY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,574 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($7,550). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HITCHCOCK FREE ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $8,574 in grants to HITCHCOCK FREE ACADEMY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HITCHCOCK FREE ACADEMY?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS is the largest funder on record, with $7,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HITCHCOCK FREE ACADEMY 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 2018–2024), 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