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CONSERVATORY LAB FOUNDATION INC

EIN 04-3443578 DORCHESTER, MA

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Revenue 2024
$2,791,202
Expenses 2024
$5,939,620

Program services were 92.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B05
Classification
1000
Street
395 COLUMBIA RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE FOUNDATION'S PURPOSE IS TO SUPPORT THE DISSEMINATION OF LEARNING THROUGH MUSIC AS AN EDUCATIONAL MODEL.

  • THE FOUNDATION RAISED FUNDS TO RENOVATE THE LOWER SCHOOL BUILDING, THUS BENEFITING THE PROGRAMS FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF LEARNING THRU MUSIC AS AN EDUCATIONAL MODEL

    Expenses $3,556,037 · Grants $3,556,037 · Revenue $2,272,505

  • THE FOUNDATION RAISED FUNDS TO BENEFIT THE PROGRAMS FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF LEARNING THRU MUSIC AS AN EDUCATIONAL MODEL

    Expenses $566,125 · Grants $566,125 · Revenue $1,091,967

  • CONSERVATORY LAB FOUNDATION LEASED A BUILDING TO CONSERVATORY LAB CHARTER SCHOOL.

    Expenses $1,375,715 · Revenue $13,527

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Katharine M Pell

    CLERK & CLASS B DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dot Joyce

    CLASS A DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Debra L Smith

    ASSISTANT CLERK & CLASS A

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Bradley F Richardson

    CLASS B DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gary Gut

    CLASS B DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melanie Sheffield

    PRESIDENT & CLASS A DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Shippen Page

    CLASS A DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Grinberg

    TREASURER & CLASS B DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ann Carter

    CLASS A DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rachel Kemp

    CLASS A DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,791,202
    Expenses
    $5,939,620
    Contributions
    $3,364,472
    Grants paid
    $4,122,162
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,665,526
    Expenses
    $2,047,940
    Contributions
    $2,215,130
    Grants paid
    $429,300
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,021,236
    Expenses
    $1,938,796
    Contributions
    $659,014
    Grants paid
    $363,958

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,251,807
    Expenses
    $1,797,928
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,012,397

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $900,646
    Expenses
    $4,673,459
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,942,371

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,184,703
    Expenses
    $2,063,848
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,067,105

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • CLCS REALTY II

    $3,556,037

    2024 TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE RENOVATION OF A SCHOOL BUILDING

  • CONSERVATORY LAB CHARTER SCHOOL

    $566,125

    2024 TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO LEARNING THROUGH MUSIC AND VIOLIN PROGRAMS

  • CONSERVATORY LAB CHARTER SCHOOL

    $429,300

    2023 TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO LEARNING THROUGH MUSIC AND VIOLIN PROGRAMS

  • CONSERVATORY LAB CHARTER SCHOOL

    $363,700

    2022 TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO LEARNING THROUGH MUSIC AND VIOLIN PROGRAMS

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • CONSERVATORY LAB CHARTER SCHOOL

    SECTION 115 · CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR PRE-KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 8TH GRADE · MA

  • CLCS REALTY CORPORATION

    501(c)(3) · DEVELOPED AND LEASES A SCHOOL BUILDING TO CONSERVATORY LAB CHARTER SCHOOL · MA

  • CLCS REALTY II SUPPORT CORPORATION

    501(c)(3) · DEVELOP AND LEASE A SCHOOL BUILDING TO CONSERVATORY LAB CHARTER SCHOOL · MA

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.