Massachusetts · Nonprofit
AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL
AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,740 to it, the largest being HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC ($49,040). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $40k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $3k
What African Community Center of Lowell does
Mission
education advocacy and cultural support
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We provided 120 sesions of one-to-one mentoring for immigrants to help with school registration healthcare issues with DCF parenting housing employment immigration status community connections college opportunities and anxiety.
$14,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants47% of program spendingWe hosted workshops including 40 participants on the topics of civic engagement career building police nterations and early childhood support.
$4,000 spentof which $3,500 as grants13% of program spendingWe held Community Voices gatherings connecting 41 newcomers with civic leaders for a two-way conversation on topics of stories from our leder college application process youth and culture and racial healing.
$5,000 spentof which $1,750 as grants17% of program spendingWe hosted 5 sessions of computer skills classes including 56 participants from our community to learn about how to use the internet safely.
$7,000 spent23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2025 to 2026, from $13k to $3k (−74%).
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.
100% of AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Gordon Donkoh-Halm
Executive Director
Board chair
Susanne Curry
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
55% 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 AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 262 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL: 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 AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL?
- AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,740 to it, the largest being HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC ($49,040). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $97,740 in grants to AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL?
- HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC is the largest funder on record, with $49,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL 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 FY2026 (financials across 2024–2026), and the filings of 6 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing