Massachusetts · Nonprofit
TOUCHABLE STORIES INC
TOUCHABLE STORIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,410 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($5,360). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Touchable Stories Inc does
Mission
To promote community building and support anti-violence work through art civic dialog documentation and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Old Vienna Legacy Project: an ongoing to program to document the community and contributions to the folk music and poetry creative scene which the club helped nurture. Primarily the creative scene in Worcester and Cambridge MA and surrounding communities from the mid 1980s though the turn of the century.
$3,644 spent70% of program spendingBobby Mendes Peace Legacy - the ongoing anti-violence program centered in the Cape Verdean community in Dorchester MA. This year the focus was on supporting survivors of homicide victims and on celebrating the choices individuals in the community have continued to make that disrupt the dynamics that perpetuate violence.
$1,557 spent30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,201.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $6k to $5k (−17%).
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.
76% of TOUCHABLE STORIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 TOUCHABLE STORIES 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
TOUCHABLE STORIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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
84% 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 TOUCHABLE STORIES INC.
“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
84% of TOUCHABLE STORIES 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 $1k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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.
Against its field
TOUCHABLE STORIES INC's revenue fell 95% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding TOUCHABLE STORIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TOUCHABLE STORIES 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.
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 TOUCHABLE STORIES 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 TOUCHABLE STORIES INC?
- TOUCHABLE STORIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,410 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($5,360). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TOUCHABLE STORIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $6,410 in grants to TOUCHABLE STORIES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of TOUCHABLE STORIES INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOUCHABLE STORIES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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