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.
Against its field
Lessons on Liberty Inc's revenue fell 65% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,271 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Brookline Community Foundation Inclocal
- Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnatiportfolio match
- Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Incportfolio match
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.
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
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Brookline Community Foundation InclocalMA · funds 39 organizations near you
- Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnatiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Maportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rhode Island Council for the Humanitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Felicia Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- M Holt Massey Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heritage Harbor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Hampshire Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mission Hillfenway Neighborhood Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Lessons on Liberty Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing