Massachusetts · Nonprofit
America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores
America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores (Massachusetts) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,630,850 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($1,942,500). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $17M
What America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores does
Mission
America scores new england inspires urban youth to lead healthy lives, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Elementary school program: the program utilizes soccer, poetry, and service-learning as core activities, with practice sessions and enrichment workshops tailored to this age group. Student-athletes meet with their coaches for writing, soccer practices and games during out of school hours 3-5 days per week for 18 weeks of the school year. This curriculum emphasizes character building skills such as leadership, teamwork, and commitment. Student-athletes play games between boston scores schools at school sites and other community locations once per week.
$783,847 spent$23,625 earned by the program33% of program spendingMiddle school program: the program utilizes soccer, financial literacy and service-learning as core activities, with practice sessions and enrichment workshops tailored to this age group. Student-athletes meet with their coaches for enrichment, and soccer practices and games during out of school hours 3 days per week for 18 weeks of the school year. This curriculum emphasizes character building skills such as leadership, teamwork, and commitment. Student-athletes play games between boston scores schools at school sites and other community locations once per week.
$531,234 spent$18,785 earned by the program22% of program spendingHigh school program: high school students from all across the city participate on scores-organized boys & girls teams in the fall, winter and spring. The students attend practice 3 times per week during the fall and spring, with a competitive game in the boston area youth soccer league on sundays. During the winter season, students practice twice weekly at an indoor practice facility and do not play competitive games. Students choose from a menu of academic and civic engagement options. All students participate in a series of college access and college readiness workshops/activities.
$367,822 spent$111,117 earned by the program16% of program spendingJunior scores program:
$682,332 spent$13,927 earned by the program29% of program spendingK-2 age group program utilizes soccer and social
Emotional skill development as core activities
With practice sessions and workshops tailored to
This age group. Students work with their coaches
Three days per wee for 8 weeks per season during
Of school time hours. This curriculum emphasizes
Teaching students to identify and constructively
Express their own emotions, using reading,
Activity sheets and group discussions. Students
Also play one soccer game against another school
Each season as a culminating event.
Summer program:
Boston scores collaborates with boston after
School and beyond to provide a 5 week summer
Learning academy camp. In the mornings students
Work on stemming summer learning loss. In the
Afternoons students chose from a wide range of
Activities including sports, crafts, games, and
Field trips.
Soccer only program:
Student-athletes meet with their soccer coaches
For soccer practices during out of school hours 3
Days per week for 18 weeks of the school year,
Utilizing the soccer for success cirriculum. This
Cirriculum emphasizes character building skills
Such as leadership, teamwork and commitment. Daily
Lessons end with discussions promoting healthy
Behaviours, self esteem, goal setting and school
Stewardship.
The 33 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,365,235.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $8.1M to $15M (+87%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 7% · 2019 8% · 2020 8% · 2021 17% · 2022 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
John Maconga
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.5M.
17 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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
America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
73% 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 America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 27% · 2019 28% · 2020 29% · 2021 29% · 2022 33% · 2023 22% — 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
45% of America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
81% of America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record — $1.7M federal, $67k state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.7M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$67k
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.
Organizations like America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores?
- America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores (Massachusetts) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,630,850 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($1,942,500). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $10,630,850 in grants to America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,942,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 83 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