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The Advertising Club of Greater Boston Inc

The Advertising Club of Greater Boston Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $398,418 to it, the largest being The Ad Club Foundation Inc ($398,418). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.1M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$398k
Net assets
$81k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01The 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 ($3.5M) Expenses 100 ($3.6M) Net assets -12 ($-48028)2018 Revenue 114 ($4.0M) Expenses 109 ($4.0M) Net assets -1 ($-2628)2019 Revenue 117 ($4.1M) Expenses 115 ($4.2M) Net assets -16 ($-60128)2020 Revenue 83 ($2.9M) Expenses 81 ($2.9M) Net assets -21 ($-79438)2021 Revenue 89 ($3.1M) Expenses 73 ($2.7M) Net assets 100 ($386k)2022 Revenue 66 ($2.3M) Expenses 72 ($2.6M) Net assets 26 ($100k)2023 Revenue 41 ($1.4M) Expenses 41 ($1.5M) Net assets 8 ($31k)2024 Revenue 60 ($2.1M) Expenses 56 ($2.0M) Net assets 21 ($81k)
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Revenue (60)Expenses (56)Net assets (21)

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$105k
’17
$45k
’18
−$58k
’19
−$19k
’20
$466k
’21
−$286k
’22
−$69k
’23
$51k
’24
0.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $41k → $43k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'22
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of The Advertising Club of Greater Boston Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of The Advertising Club of Greater Boston Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’22
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Organizations like The Advertising Club of Greater Boston 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

The Ad Club Foundation Inc86%Harvard Club of Boston73%Massachusetts Health Council Inc72%Propeller Club of Boston Inc72%Artsboston Inc72%Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce72%The New England Council Inc71%Massachusetts Asian American Commission71%

Nationally

The Ad Club Foundation Inc86%Advertising Club of New York Foundation74%American Academy of Advertising73%American Advertising Federation Inc73%American Association of Advertising Agencies73%Harvard Club of Boston73%Advertising Week Inc73%Association of National Advertisers Inc73%
04Profile & governance

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

Governance

28
board members
96%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Ad Club Foundation Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Advertising Club of Greater Boston Inc?
The Advertising Club of Greater Boston Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $398,418 to it, the largest being The Ad Club Foundation Inc ($398,418). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Advertising Club of Greater Boston Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $398,418 in grants to The Advertising Club of Greater Boston Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Advertising Club of Greater Boston Inc?
The Ad Club Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $398,418 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Advertising Club of Greater Boston 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 2017–2024), 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing