Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE REYNOLDS CENTER FOR TEACHING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY INC
THE REYNOLDS CENTER FOR TEACHING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,876 to it, the largest being THE DASSAULT SYSTEMES US FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $276k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $82k
- Net assets
- $106k
What The Reynolds Center for Teaching Learning and Creativity Inc does
Mission
he Reynolds Center for Teaching, Learning and Creativity (RCTLC) encourages creativity and innovation in teaching and learning. Founded in 2009 by creativity champions and award-winning authors, Paul and Peter H. Reynolds, we are dedicated to ensuring that all learners develop the vision, confidence, knowledge and skills needed to move their own lives forward, and to use their talents, strengths and energy to move their communities and the world to a better place. To that end, RCTLC bridges traditional silos in education, schools, research, philanthropy, and business to incubate, deploy, test and share innovations in pedagogically progressive uses of educational technology. We enjoy the support of a staff with deep experience in education, edtech, digital media, R&D tool development, as well as dissemination and research. RCTLC also has an active Board of Directors from business, education, legal, and government.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
One of the Reynolds Center's flagship projects is our support of International Dot Day - launched by a teacher in Iowa, which has grown into a global creativity movement. Explore www.TheDotClub.org to learn more and join the nearly 2 million students, teachers, and librarians around the world celebrating creativity, courage and community.
$3,265 spent4% of program spendingHUTCH is a kids' literary and creativity magazine, published semi-annually under the direction of Peter H. Reynolds, with the help of The Blue Bunny Bookstore, and his non-profit foundation, The Reynolds Center for Teaching, Learning, and Creativity. The magazine features stories, art, poetry, book reviews, travel logs and interviews submitted by kids.
$2,645 spent3% of program spendingMultiple other programs, including: Teen Health Comics, based in Boston, is partnering with students and staff at Ostiguy "Recovery High" in Boston and the Reynolds Center to produce an animated video, Song for Nadia for use in the Project Here app. Song for Nadia, dedicated to the memory of a beautiful 20 year old who was lost to heroin overdose in 2016, brings a powerful prevention message to young people with an original story and compelling visuals. Shirah - An animated film produced in partnership with the Margaret Kelly Fund, and Going Places after school program produced in partnership with AlphaBest. Big Picture Learning - Being Well Well Being program including program definition and support.
$75,819 spent$83,000 earned by the program93% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $81,729.
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 $41k to $143k (+246%).
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 REYNOLDS CENTER FOR TEACHING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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 fell $50k → $10k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 REYNOLDS CENTER FOR TEACHING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY 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 REYNOLDS CENTER FOR TEACHING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 REYNOLDS CENTER FOR TEACHING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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 REYNOLDS CENTER FOR TEACHING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 REYNOLDS CENTER FOR TEACHING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 REYNOLDS CENTER FOR TEACHING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY INC: 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 REYNOLDS CENTER FOR TEACHING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY INC?
- THE REYNOLDS CENTER FOR TEACHING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,876 to it, the largest being THE DASSAULT SYSTEMES US FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE REYNOLDS CENTER FOR TEACHING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $81,876 in grants to THE REYNOLDS CENTER FOR TEACHING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of THE REYNOLDS CENTER FOR TEACHING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY INC?
- THE DASSAULT SYSTEMES US FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE REYNOLDS CENTER FOR TEACHING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 5 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