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ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION

ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $801,560 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($344,960). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$563k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$802k
Net assets
$1.9M
9/14 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What St Botolph Club Foundation does

Mission

To encourage the creative arts and provide assistance to young artists and to preserve and protect the historic exterior and other decorative and architectural elements of the property at 199 commonwealth avenue and other properties in the historic back bay of boston.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. During fiscal year ending march 31, 2025 (2024 tax year), the foundation provided 23 grants to artists, musicians, and writers for $87,000 total. The foundation also funded one preservation grant for a historic building in the amount of $28,200.

    $129,520 spentof which $115,200 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $129,520.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($201k) Expenses 100 ($97k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 239 ($482k) Expenses 629 ($607k) Net assets 94 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 69 ($139k) Expenses 131 ($127k) Net assets 98 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 98 ($197k) Expenses 130 ($126k) Net assets 96 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 126 ($254k) Expenses 298 ($288k) Net assets 112 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 172 ($346k) Expenses 275 ($266k) Net assets 121 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 136 ($274k) Expenses 223 ($215k) Net assets 109 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 110 ($222k) Expenses 109 ($106k) Net assets 130 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 279 ($563k) Expenses 172 ($166k) Net assets 157 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (279)Expenses (172)Net assets (157)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.6M to $1.9M (+20%).

$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.6M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$105k
’17
−$126k
’18
$13k
’19
$71k
’20
−$33k
’21
$80k
’22
$59k
’23
$117k
’24
$396k
’25
24
months of
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

Tim Carey

Trustee & chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151917181817172416
Joined·+4+2+1+1+4+3+8+5
No longer listed·040153113
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $277k → $61k.

5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION’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.

How concentrated its funding is

ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

53% 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 ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION.

43%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 67% · 2021 63% · 2022 92% · 2023 61% — 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

25% of ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

53% of ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION'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 $375k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $427k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 20%Fundraising 2%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

65%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION?
ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $801,560 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($344,960). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $801,560 in grants to ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $344,960 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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