Massachusetts · Nonprofit
UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE
UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,000 to it, the largest being SWARTZ FOUNDATION TRUST ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $152k
- Net assets
- $0
What Union Chapel Education & Cultural Institute does
Mission
To organize, curate, promote, and sponsor forums, public discussions, debates, meetings, and concerts that are educational, cultural, musical, and otherwise advantageous to the public to learn and enjoy; and to engage in.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Forums- organize concerts and educational and cultural forums that are free to the public.
Island outreach/support- for local nonprofits in need
$116,656 spentof which $24,250 as grants100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $116,656.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $175k to $0 (−100%).
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 UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE’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. 4 of the last 6 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 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $59k → $23k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE’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
UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 42% · 2020 55% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE's revenue fell 77% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE: 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 UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE?
- UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,000 to it, the largest being SWARTZ FOUNDATION TRUST ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $152,000 in grants to UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE?
- SWARTZ FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNION CHAPEL EDUCATION & CULTURAL INSTITUTE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 6 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