Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NUMBER SIX CLUB
NUMBER SIX CLUB (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $41,375 to it, the largest being Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($41,375). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $568k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $119k
What Number Six Club does
Mission
The Number Six Club is a Nationally-affiliated Co-ed Literary Fraternity. Since our founding in 1889, we identify as a group which collectively aims to develop a cultured understanding of the world through discussion and debate. As a literary society, we provide each other with a receptive medium for personal expression. Through discussions and presentations, we pursue our interests, ranging from the arts to politics, from science to culture, and from philosophy to music. Additionally, we host a lecture series where distinguished academics and speakers lead discussions amongst members and friends.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Number Six Club is a literary society, social fraternity and educational organization. It operates a residential facility at 428 Memorial Drive providing housing to MIT students. The Club pays rent to its landlord SAAB/MIT, covers all utilities, maintains the physical property, and employs a contracted chef service (Gill Grilling) to provide dinners 5 nights per week to residents and members.
$339,247 spent$449,853 earned by the program89% of program spendingThe Club conducts weekly literary meetings, rush and pledge programming to admit new members, social events (cocktail hours, formals, themed parties), senior events, and pays dues to its national fraternal organization. These activities advance the Club's mission as a fraternal and literary society at MIT.
$40,021 spent$7,360 earned by the program10% of program spendingThird-party software subscriptions supporting Club administration and operations.
$3,250 spent1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $382,518.
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 2020 to 2021, from $111k to $59k (−47%).
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.
0% of NUMBER SIX CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $14k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 NUMBER SIX CLUB’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
100% of NUMBER SIX CLUB'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
NUMBER SIX CLUB's revenue grew 46% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NUMBER SIX CLUB?
- NUMBER SIX CLUB (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $41,375 to it, the largest being Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($41,375). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NUMBER SIX CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $41,375 in grants to NUMBER SIX CLUB, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NUMBER SIX CLUB?
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the largest funder on record, with $41,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NUMBER SIX CLUB 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 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