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KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA INC

KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $309,511 to it, the largest being FRACTURED ATLAS INC ($113,130). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$241k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$310k
Net assets
$44k
4/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 87%
01What it does

What Kendall Square Orchestra Inc does

Mission

Kendall square orchestra (ko) seeks to support industry and community events related to healthcare & education and promote community engagement, teamwork, and leadership. They create events that bring together partners from the patient, medical, and industry communities to support progress towards treatment of difficult diseases, enhance stem education and address homelessness.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Regular orchestra performances

    $104,230 spent$39,524 earned by the program
    46% of program spending
  2. Symphony for science performance

    $96,340 spentof which $23,048 as grants$24,531 earned by the program
    42% of program spending
  3. Artistic development program

    $26,694 spent
    12% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $227,264.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($75k) Expenses 100 ($26k) Net assets 100 ($49k)2020 Revenue 107 ($80k) Expenses 389 ($103k) Net assets 54 ($26k)2021 Revenue 151 ($114k) Expenses 385 ($102k) Net assets 79 ($39k)2022 Revenue 154 ($116k) Expenses 365 ($97k) Net assets 171 ($83k)2023 Revenue 307 ($231k) Expenses 914 ($242k) Net assets 121 ($59k)2024 Revenue 161 ($121k) Expenses 497 ($131k) Net assets 99 ($48k)2025 Revenue 320 ($241k) Expenses 911 ($241k) Net assets 89 ($44k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (320)Expenses (911)Net assets (89)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 2023 to 2024, from $99k to $53k (−46%).

$49k
$26k
$39k
$83k
$99k
$53k
$70k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

73% of KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$49k
’19
−$22k
’20
$12k
’21
$19k
’22
−$11k
’23
−$11k
’24
−$53
’25
3.5
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.

20232025
Listed88
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $65k → $34k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA 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

KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

81% 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 KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA INC.

37%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 79% · 2023 45% — 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 KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.

NY
MA
FL

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $136k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve3.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28k on record.

State$28k
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22
23
24
25
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$28k

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.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 5%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA INC?
KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $309,511 to it, the largest being FRACTURED ATLAS INC ($113,130). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $309,511 in grants to KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA INC?
FRACTURED ATLAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $113,130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KENDALL SQUARE ORCHESTRA 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 2019–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing