Massachusetts · Nonprofit
The Delphic Club
The Delphic Club (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,873 to it, the largest being Friends of Harvard Square Inc ($83,227). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $309k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $95k
- Net assets
- $4k
What The Delphic Club does
Mission
The Club is dedicated to educational, historical and social purposes. The Club provides an environment where persons of diverse age and experience may gather to exchange ideas and opinions; to preserve traditions of academic and professional excellence; and to establish and maintain facilities where students, faculty, and graduates of Harvard University who are members of the Club may gather for study, conversation, and entertainment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To cover expenses supporting The Delphic Club.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 $1k to $5k (+338%).
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.
100% of The Delphic Club’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $12k → $83k.
From the IRS filings of The Delphic Club’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 Delphic Club leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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 Delphic Club.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Delphic Club's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
The Delphic Club has grown faster than half of the 1,185 membership benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,185 membership benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Delphic Club
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Delphic Trust · exempt
- Friends of Harvard Square · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Delphic Club: 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 Delphic Club?
- The Delphic Club (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,873 to it, the largest being Friends of Harvard Square Inc ($83,227). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Delphic Club have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $94,873 in grants to The Delphic Club.
- Who is the largest funder of The Delphic Club?
- Friends of Harvard Square Inc is the largest funder on record, with $83,227 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Delphic Club 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 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