Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC
THE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,529,131 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($762,100). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What The Hasty Pudding - Institute of 1770 Inc does
Mission
To promote and encourage greater involvement in education, cultural and academic activities by students in harvard college and the graduate schools of harvard university, and more particularly to create expanded interest and opportunity in the performing and creative arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The institute supports programs that foster the arts and encourages their growth.
$724,995 spentof which $50,000 as grants51% of program spendingTheatricals conducts an annual burlesque musical and holds performances in cambridge, new york city and bermuda. The hasty pudding - institute of 1770 presents annual student written and composed productions. Theatricals supports its activities through ticket & concession sales and sponsorships. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, the organization performed a show titled "101 damnations". It also holds the man and woman of the year events.
$389,126 spent$217,441 earned by the program27% of program spendingThe hasty pudding club provides meeting and social space for more than 240 harvard undergraduates who have an interest in the activities traditionally associated with the organization, ranging from the musical to acappella singing groups such as the harvard krokodiloes or in arts related community service.
$315,127 spent$560,122 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,429,248.
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 $2.4M to $3.9M (+66%).
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.
44% of THE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 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. 6 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.
Board chair
Andrew L Farkas
Chairman/director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $142k → $300k.
9 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC’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 HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 79% · 2019 65% · 2020 29% · 2021 47% · 2022 60% · 2023 32% — 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
42% of THE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
86% of THE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC'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 $207k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
THE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC?
- THE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,529,131 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($762,100). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,529,131 in grants to THE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $762,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 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.
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 24 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