Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON
THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,057,226 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($250,090). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $35M
What The Skating Club of Boston does
Mission
To be a leader in advancing participation, education, and excellence in skating for people of all ages, abilities, and means.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Skating Club of Boston operates figure skating programs in its new, state of the art three-rink facility in norwood. Offerings include recreational public skating; recreational and competitive programs in pairs, singles, and dance skating; team synchronized skating; and a theatre-on-ice program. The club also operates a high-performance training program for individuals interested in competing at the national and international level. On behalf of u.s. Figure skating, the national governing body for the sport, the club also periodically hosts qualifying regional, sectional, and national championships. Club members have won over 145 national titles, several world titles, and two olympic championships. Its members have also gone on to leadership positions at the national and international level of governance in the sport. The club has a youth in sport program that provides monetary support for city youth and local skaters learning, appreciating, and excelling in the sport of figure skating. It underwrites the skating after school program in the skating academy and supports local youth who may not otherwise be able to afford the cost of skating.
$15,299,322 spentof which $141,754 as grants$16,538,219 earned by the program90% of program spendingThe Skating Club of Boston operates the boston park department's facility at the frog pond on the historic boston common as part of a public-private partnership with the city of boston. The club operates the frog pond on a year-round basis with the purpose of providing four seasons of family entertainment. During the winter months, club-managed activities center on operation of the skating rink including skate rentals, public skating, private outings, and group and private skating lessons. The club also produces a skating show during the winter to celebrate the new year as part of boston's first night celebrations. During the warm weather months, the club maintains and operates the reflecting and spray pool at the frog pond as well as a children's carousel. Year-round, the club operates the frog pond cafe. In addition to the winter skating shows that are free to the public, the club also promotes and produces a free movie night series, free yoga classes, and other events of special interest to locals and tourists alike.
$1,212,591 spent$1,925,653 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe Skating Club of Boston's skating academy is new england's premier skating school with multiple programs in several boston-area locations. Enrollment is close to 2,000 students, with new programs and locations being offered every year. In addition to its standard curriculum for youth and adults, the academy also operated a therapeutic skating program for children with emotional, learning, and other disadvantages, as well as a two-week summer skating camp. The club's skating academy also operates its skating in the schools program, offering students in boston the opportunity to learn how to skate. The program is fully-sponsored by the club and outside sponsors.
$492,917 spent$868,245 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,004,830.
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 2018 to 2019, from $15M to $43M (+184%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (10% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 narrowed from 8 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $377k → $77k.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON’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 SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
50% 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 SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 66% · 2020 31% · 2021 72% · 2022 70% · 2023 53% — 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
31% of THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
72% of THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $323k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.1M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 164 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON?
- THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,057,226 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($250,090). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,057,226 in grants to THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $250,090 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON 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 18 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