Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ACCELERATE CHANGE INC
ACCELERATE CHANGE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 170 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,316,952 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($27,303,853). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 170
- Grants received
- $83M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Accelerate Change Inc does
Mission
To develop and test new models for citizen organizing, particularly in communities of color, that are scalable, financially self-sustaining, and build deep, trusted relationships that can move people to take action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The accelerate change program helps social change organizations build the people power and resources needed to make the lasting institutional changes needed for all communities to thrive. It helps organizations develop innovative ways to engage their members using lean startup methodologies and other strategies focused on solving real problems and enhancing the lives of their constituents. Accelerate change also helps funders test new models for large scale, financially sustainable citizen organizing by identifying scalable civic venture opportunities, helping grantees test new models for building membership, and building earned revenue strategies into grantmaking.
$28,775,700 spentof which $4,641,601 as grants$665,265 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $28,775,700.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $7.7M to $19M (+150%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of ACCELERATE CHANGE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Lea Madry
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 28 funders, grant income rose $200k → $6.0M.
52 of 170 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 ACCELERATE CHANGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 170 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
ACCELERATE CHANGE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
75% 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 ACCELERATE CHANGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 53% · 2021 56% · 2022 43% · 2023 14% — diversifying over time.
“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
23% of ACCELERATE CHANGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.
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
59% of ACCELERATE CHANGE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $34M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 22 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
ACCELERATE CHANGE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 63 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 63 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ACCELERATE CHANGE INC
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.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Progressive Florida Education Institute Inc · exempt
- Fair Share Education Fund Inc · exempt
- Progressive Future Education Network Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACCELERATE CHANGE INC: 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 ACCELERATE CHANGE INC?
- ACCELERATE CHANGE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 170 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,316,952 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($27,303,853). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACCELERATE CHANGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 170 organizations giving $83,316,952 in grants to ACCELERATE CHANGE INC, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCELERATE CHANGE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $27,303,853 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCELERATE CHANGE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 170 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