Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC
HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,149,038 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($40,516,373). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 118
- Grants received
- $64M
- Net assets
- $102M
What Huntington Theatre Co Inc does
Mission
See schedule o for organization's mission statementmission statement: the huntington theatre company engages, inspires, entertains and challenges audiences with theatrical productions that range from the classics to new works; we train and support the next generation of theatre artists; we provide arts education programs that promote life-long learning to a diverse community; and we celebrate the essential power of the theatre to illuminate our common humanity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The huntington theatre company is boston's leading professional theatre and one of the region's premier cultural assets. Since its founding in 1982, the huntington has received over 150 elliot norton and independent reviewers of new england awards, as well as the tony award for outstanding regional theatre. In the past 41 years, the huntington has played to an audience of 3.5 million, presented over 200 plays (18 of which went on to broadway or off broadway), and served over 500,000 students, community members, and other cultural organizations. Under the direction of norma jean calderwood artistic director loretta greco and executive director chris mannelli, the huntington brings together world-class theatre artists from boston, broadway, and beyond with the most promising new talent to create eclectic seasons of exciting new works and classics made current. A longstanding anchor cultural institution of huntington avenue, the avenue of the arts, the huntington now fully owns the huntington avenue theatre and has completed the first phase of a transformational renovation and expansion of the historic venue, which in its second phase will add first-rate, modern amenities including a…
$14,795,343 spent$2,701,661 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,795,343.
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 2021 to 2022, from $85M to $118M (+38%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 8% · 2021 12% · 2022 24% · 2023 5% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Christopher Mannelli
Executive director
Board chair
David R Peeler
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $7.8M.
17 of 118 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Boston Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 118 funders by total. 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
HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 64% · 2019 57% · 2020 69% · 2021 37% · 2022 51% · 2023 63% — growing more concentrated.
“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
52% of HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
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
71% of HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO 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. Of the $19M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record — $155k federal, $2.9M state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$155k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$2.9M
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$1k
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.
Organizations like HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Huntington Realty LLC · partnership
- Huntington Master Tenant LLC · partnership
- Huntington Mm LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC?
- HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,149,038 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($40,516,373). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC have?
- IRS filings report 118 organizations giving $64,149,038 in grants to HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC, 74 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $40,516,373 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 118 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