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18 DEGREES INC

18 DEGREES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,390,247 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,004,821). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$13M
Funders on record
58
Grants received
$4.4M
Net assets
$8.5M
37/58 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What 18 Degrees Inc does

Mission

We champion access, opportunity, belonging, and well-being for all people on their journey, helping to build thriving communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. See schedule ohealing homes: healing homes is a comprehensive foster care program currently consisting of twenty-six licensed foster parents. To become licensed, applicants submit to cori and sori checks, a dcf history check and fingerprinting. Those that clear are then enrolled in a thirty-hour massachusetts approach to partnership in parenting curriculum that outlines the many facets of the work. The training also provides education regarding the social, emotional, and physical effects of trauma while emphasizing the benefits of trauma-informed care. The trauma informed care approach continues to be emphasized throughout the relationship with their social worker. Weekly visits are provided by the social worker, and monthly visits by the family resource worker. Healing homes provides twenty-four hour on call services to assist foster parents in times of crisis. There have been 25 foster parents and 42 children served in the fiscal year 2025.

    $1,044,633 spent
    11% of program spending
  2. Early education & care: offers exceptional education and care for children from birth through pre-kindergarten in pittsfield. 18 degrees also offers before- and after-school care, and out of school time care programs for older children. Program served 200 in fiscal year 2025.

    $2,327,783 spent$484,823 earned by the program
    25% of program spending
  3. Pittsfield community connection: pittsfield community connection (pcc) provides comprehensive and culturally responsive youth development and referral services for berkshire youth ages 10-24. Pcc utilizes an evidence-based youth intervention and prevention program design, supporting vulnerable youth through advocacy, building healthy relationships, family engagement, and community mobilization. The program served 279 in fiscal 2025.

    $1,794,325 spentof which $8,000 as grants
    19% of program spending
  4. Young parent support programs, parents as teachers, family networks, adoption services, community based health initiative-family partners, kids 4 harmony, community based prevention, family resource center, community centered family support, court appointed special advocate, fathers & family network, city of pittsfield empath, and berkshire united way empath.

    $4,271,040 spent$32,032 earned by the program
    45% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,437,781.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.6M) Expenses 100 ($8.6M) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2018 Revenue 108 ($9.2M) Expenses 105 ($9.1M) Net assets 108 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 100 ($8.6M) Expenses 100 ($8.6M) Net assets 105 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 120 ($10M) Expenses 104 ($9.0M) Net assets 228 ($4.3M)2022 Revenue 118 ($10M) Expenses 119 ($10M) Net assets 214 ($4.0M)2023 Revenue 127 ($11M) Expenses 117 ($10M) Net assets 258 ($4.9M)2024 Revenue 147 ($13M) Expenses 123 ($11M) Net assets 369 ($7.0M)2025 Revenue 148 ($13M) Expenses 130 ($11M) Net assets 453 ($8.5M)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (130)Net assets (453)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.2M to $7.3M (+40%).

$2.8M
$3.0M
$2.9M
$5.5M
$5.2M
$7.3M
$9.3M
$11M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 1% · 2023 88% · 2024 86% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$69k
’17
$137k
’18
−$29k
’19
$1.3M
’21
−$214k
’22
$763k
’23
$2.0M
’24
$1.4M
’25
5.7
months of
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.

Chief executive

Stephanie Steed

President & CEO

Board chair

Sheila Heffernon

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1417221918181820
Joined·+7+6·+3+4+2+6
No longer listed·41·4424
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $406k → $775k.

10 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 18 DEGREES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 funders by total. 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

18 DEGREES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

72% 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 18 DEGREES INC.

23%
largest funder
55%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 37% · 2019 39% · 2020 29% · 2021 25% · 2022 21% · 2023 59% — 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.

How long its funders stay

55% of 18 DEGREES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

86% of 18 DEGREES INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

ME
VT
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding 18 DEGREES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40.8M on record — $10k federal, $40.7M state.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k
State$40.7M
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Top programs
  • (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$37.6M
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$2.8M
  • (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$304k
  • (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$30
  • (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$25

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 14%Fundraising 2%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds 18 DEGREES INC?
18 DEGREES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,390,247 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,004,821). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does 18 DEGREES INC have?
IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $4,390,247 in grants to 18 DEGREES INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of 18 DEGREES INC?
BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,004,821 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like 18 DEGREES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 58 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing