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Make it at TRC: Help Keep Boston’s Creative Workforce Here

Neponset Monastery playing live on a TRC stage, a guitarist in front and a vocalist leaning into the mic
Neponset Monastery, live at TRC. Photo: JayPix
Annual campaign 2026

Make it
at TRC.

Every record starts in a room somebody could afford.

At 960 Mass Ave an hour in a pro studio is $10 to $40. Across town it is $100 and up. Your gift keeps it that way.

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Keep the rooms open.

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Backs a full 4-hour studio session every single month so an artist can record without debt.
Give $50/mo

You'll confirm your amount on our donate page. Cancel a monthly gift any time.

Giving $2,500 or more? See leadership levels

The Record Company Inc. · 501(c)(3) · EIN 27-1238513. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent the law allows.

A scene from The Record Co. in Boston
Photo: JayPix

Your gift keeps the rooms open.

Studio hours at $10 to $40. A free 12-week Academy. A home for 400+ creative businesses.

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Arts has always been advocacy, and that is why it is under constant attack. We believe deeply in this community. So we built the rooms, the training and the footing it needs to stand on.

Bobby Boyd
Executive Director, The Record Co.

Where your gift goes

Learn. Work. Build.

Learn

A free 12-week Academy in sound engineering, music production and music business. Graduates start at $18 to $26 an hour.

Work

960 Mass Ave has 4 recording studios, 11 rehearsal rooms, 4 production suites and a community room. $10 to $40 an hour.

Build

88 rooms and 400+ creative businesses at 55 Morrissey, running at 95% occupancy. We are doing the planning work to give them a home that lasts.

Anupe speaking into a microphone at the TRC Academy fall 2026 cohort welcome
Anupe welcoming the fall 2026 cohort. Photo: JayPix
Who it is for

Anupe built his business in our studios.

Anupe finished TRC Academy, started his own audio production business out of our rooms, and this fall stood up in front of the new cohort to tell them how he did it.

100 graduates in year one. 40 new students started this fall.

108
Studios and workspaces
100
Academy graduates, year one
400+
Creative businesses at 55
95%
Occupancy at 55 Morrissey

We asked 129 businesses at 55 Morrissey. 70% are earning or building toward income. 37% would significantly scale back without TRC. Source: TRC survey, 2026.

Leadership gifts

Named for the people who make a record.

We named the levels after the people who make a record. Each one pays for seats in a 12-week Academy class, and we run three classes a year.

Producer
$2,500
one student, one 12-week class

Covers one student's full seat in a 12-week Academy class. You get a studio tour.

Become a Producer
Engineer
$10,000
four students, one class

Covers four seats in a class. Everything in Producer, plus a seat in a TRC Academy class.

Become an Engineer
Mainstage
$50,000+
over two to three years

A multi-year partner who backs classes all year. We run three cohorts a year. Everything in Engineer, plus sitting in on a session.

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Other ways to give

Every way ends up in the same rooms.

Donor-advised fund

Use the quick-grant tool above or recommend your grant to The Record Company Inc. (not Friends of the Record Co., which is separate). EIN 27-1238513.

Stock and securities

Email development@therecordco.org for transfer instructions.

Check by mail

Payable to The Record Company Inc., 960 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA 02118.

Honorary or memorial gift

Email development@therecordco.org with the name.

Gear donation

Studio, audio or instrument gear? Tell us what you have.

Matching gift

Ask your HR team for a matching form. Use The Record Company Inc. and EIN 27-1238513.

Planned gift

Keep the rooms going for the next generation. Talk to development.

Studio time for someone

Rooms start at $10 an hour. Ask about gift cards.

Questions about a gift? Talk to Pablo Velez Jr., Director of Development, at pablo@therecordco.org.

Questions

What donors ask us most.

Is TRC Academy really free?

Yes. Each class runs 12 weeks across three tracks, we run three a year, and students pay no tuition. Each seat costs us $2,500, and gifts cover it.

Is my gift tax-deductible?

Yes, to the extent the law allows. The Record Company Inc. is a 501(c)(3). EIN 27-1238513.

Can I cancel a monthly gift?

Yes, any time. Email development@therecordco.org and we will take care of it.

Can I visit before I give?

Please do. 960 Mass Ave is open 10am to midnight, Tuesday to Sunday.

The Record Co.

960 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA 02118 · EIN 27-1238513