Massachusetts · Nonprofit
REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC
REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,685,582 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,729,555). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $457k
What Rehearsal for Life Inc does
Mission
Rehearsal for life programs strengthen young people's social and emotional skills for every stage in life, through dialogue, creativity, and performance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Urban improv's structured improvisational theater workshops are designed to strengthen social and emotional learning (sel) skills and help students deal creatively with real-life challenges through dialogue and performance. Through culturally accessible tools of music, improvisation, humor and role-play, students confront issues like stereotyping, cyberbullying and peer pressure. They acquire and maintain the sel skills necessary to recognize and manage their emotions, demonstrate caring and concern for others, establish positive relationships, make responsible decisions and constructively handle challenging social situations. Urban improv programs include: school workshop series, a nineweek program by classroom with boston partner schools held at hyde square task force;- youth unscripted, a high school youth empowerment program; re:action assemblies, interactive assemblies on social-issues topics.
$567,825 spentof which $7,600 as grants$70,984 earned by the program50% of program spendingThe freelance players engages youth in the creation and performance of original musical theater for audiences of all ages. The program fosters imagination, selfexpression, empathy, and confidence in young people. Through six performance troupes across greater boston and story theater classes for younger children, the freelance players promotes community by building bridges across ethnic, geographic and socio-economic boundaries. Each troupe produces two original musicals a year, which are performed around the community, many free of charge and as a public service.
$567,825 spent$126,444 earned by the program50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,135,650.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $984k (−26%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2020 6% · 2021 20% · 2022 38% · 2023 18% · 2024 16% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
James Benenson Iii
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $255k → $438k.
10 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 41% · 2019 43% · 2020 38% · 2021 37% · 2022 53% · 2023 54% — broadly stable.
“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
45% of REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
61% of REHEARSAL FOR LIFE 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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC's revenue fell 28% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $501k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$501k
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 REHEARSAL FOR LIFE 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
80%
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 REHEARSAL FOR LIFE 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 REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC?
- REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,685,582 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,729,555). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $3,685,582 in grants to REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,729,555 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REHEARSAL FOR LIFE 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 49 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