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Filing year 2024

826 BOSTON INC

Roxbury, Massachusetts·EIN 20-8065915·NTEE B90 · Education·3
Total revenue
$7.2M
Total assets
$5.3M
Total expenses
$3.4M
Reported officers
17
Mission

826 BOSTON IS A NONPROFIT WRITING, TUTORING, AND PUBLISHING ORGANIZATION WHERE STUDENTS IN GRADES K-12 AND BEYOND CAN SHARE THEIR STORIES, AMPLIFY THEIR VOICES, AND DEVELOP AS LEADERS IN SCHOOL AND IN LIFE. 826 BOSTON IS PART OF A NETWORK OF NINE 826 CHAPTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY CO-FOUNDED BY AUTHOR DAVE EGGERS AND EDUCATOR NINIVE CALEGARI. SINCE 2007, 826 BOSTON HAS WORKED WITH MORE THAN 30,000 STUDENTS AND HUNDREDS OF TEACHERS, AND HAS PUBLISHED DOZENS OF HIGH-QUALITY, PROFESSIONALLY DESIGNED COLLECTIONS OF STUDENT WRITING. 826 BOSTON'S PROGRAMS, OFFERED FREE OF CHARGE, ARE ROOTED IN THE UNDERSTANDING THAT GREAT LEAPS IN LEARNING CAN OCCUR WITH INDIVIDUALIZED ATTENTION, AND THAT WRITING SKILLS ARE FUNDAMENTAL TO FUTURE SUCCESS. THESE PROGRAMS SERVE STUDENTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF BOSTON AND INCLUDE PUBLISHING PROJECTS, AFTER-SCHOOL TUTORING, WRITING WORKSHOPS, FIELD TRIPS, CLASSROOM-BASED COLLABORATIONS, STEM-BASED WRITING INITIATIVES, WRITERS' ROOMS, AND COLLEGE ESSAY SUPPORT.

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 2 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Senior Director of Development
$111k
$118k
Executive Director
$108k
$116k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 15 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Education

Up 94%
from 2023

From $57k in 2023 to $111k in 2024.

$57k
2023
$111k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 88% in real terms$63k to $118k

Estimated with Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

826 BOSTON INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$2.6M
$3.1M
2023
$7.2M
$3.4M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Education executives earn in Massachusetts

Comparable education organizations in Massachusetts pay their highest-earning executive a median of $132,637.

25th percentile
$61k
Median
$132,637
75th percentile
$333k
90th percentile
$721k

These are education sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 379 organizations across 379 filings (2021 – 2023).

See full Education pay data for Massachusetts
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