Massachusetts · Nonprofit
The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research
The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,100 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($21,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $9k
What The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research does
Mission
The Beacon Hill Institute engages in rigorous economic research and conducts educational programs for the purpose of producing and disseminating readable analyses of current public policy issues to voters,
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Not described on the e-filed return.
$75,484 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $75,484.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $36k to $10k (−73%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $11k → $29k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research’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
The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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.
Where its funders are
55% of The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research'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 $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k 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.
Organizations like The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research
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.
Public support
100%
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 The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research: 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 The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research?
- The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,100 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($21,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $39,100 in grants to The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $21,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 2 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