Massachusetts · Nonprofit
REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC
REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,210,397 to it, the largest being EDWARD C JOHNSON FUND ($1,500,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $8.9M
What Revolutionary Spaces Inc does
Mission
Revolutionary spaces brings people together to explore the american struggle to create and sustain a free society, singularly evoked by boston's old south meeting house and old state house. We steward these buildings as gathering spaces for the open exchange of ideas and the continuing practice of democracy, inspiring all who believe in the power of people to govern themselves.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Preservation and renovation of the old state house and old south meeting house, historic landmarks of colonial-era boston; and operation of the old state house and old south meeting house museums, to promote better public understanding of the period and intellectual climate that gave birth to the american revolution.
$1,689,158 spent$1,010,409 earned by the program49% of program spendingGeneral programming activities include conservation of revolutionary spaces' collection and archives as a resource for both researchers and the general public, and interpreting the old state house, old south meeting house, and their histories through exhibitions and programming targeted to museum visitors, school groups and members of the community. Programs include: gallery programs and subject-based museum tours, virtual programs, large-scale historical re-enactments, and site-specific history theatre productions.
$1,766,604 spent$87,452 earned by the program51% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,455,762.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $12M to $9.0M (−28%).
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: 2020 13% · 2021 56% · 2022 31% · 2023 15% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Nathaniel Sheidley
President & CEO
Board chair
Martha Mcnamara
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $24k → $262k.
7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% 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
50% 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 REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 57% · 2019 68% · 2020 95% · 2021 73% · 2022 49% · 2023 27% — 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
50% of REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
94% of REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $867k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record — $1.3M federal, $1.7M state.
- Department of the Interior$1.3M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.7M
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 REVOLUTIONARY SPACES 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 REVOLUTIONARY SPACES 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 REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC?
- REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,210,397 to it, the largest being EDWARD C JOHNSON FUND ($1,500,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $4,210,397 in grants to REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC?
- EDWARD C JOHNSON FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REVOLUTIONARY SPACES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing