Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Lessons on Liberty Inc
Lessons on Liberty Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being DOTOPIA ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $500
- Net assets
- $-68971
What Lessons on Liberty Inc does
Mission
Educate and entertain the public with historically informed demonstrations of printing technology; teach media literacy and civic engagement by reproducing and engaging in dialogue with 18th-century documents whose
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Educational Programs / Interpretation: The Printing Office of Edes & Gill is Bostons only functional 18th century exhibit. This offers an exclusive experience to our diverse visitors and educational clients. Interpertive frameworks include: Engine of Modernity - Demonstrate and explain the historical printing process and reveal how printing technology gave birth to the modern age. Freedom of the Press - Celebrate the hard-won right of printers and journalists to publish freely, and explain how a free press played a crucial role in 18th century politics, the birth of America, and its importance continues around the world today. Media Literacy - Emphasize the duty of citizens to develop media literacy and to read critically when approaching historical or contemporary tests, to seek the understanding of the difference between opinion, fact and misinformation. Civic Engagement - Celebrate the legacy of 18th century Bostons presses in stimulating public dialogue and provoking change, encourage a continuation of that spirit of engaged, informed citizenship in the modern age. Promise and Paradox of Liberty - Reveal the limited vision of liberty envisioned in the documents we print, while…
$50,713 spent$45,396 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $50,713.
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 $88k to $11k (−87%).
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: 2021 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Lessons on Liberty Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
From the IRS filings of Lessons on Liberty 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.
Where its funders are
Lessons on Liberty Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Lessons on Liberty Inc's revenue fell 65% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like Lessons on Liberty 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lessons on Liberty 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 Lessons on Liberty Inc?
- Lessons on Liberty Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being DOTOPIA ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lessons on Liberty Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to Lessons on Liberty Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Lessons on Liberty Inc?
- DOTOPIA is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lessons on Liberty 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 1 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