Massachusetts · Nonprofit
AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC
AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,778,296 to it, the largest being OCTOBER MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC ($518,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $61M
What Austen Riggs Center Inc does
Mission
The austen riggs center is a vital therapeutic community, open psychiatric residential treatment center, and institute for education and research. Our mission is to promote resilience and self-direction in those with complex psychiatric problems to help people take charge of their lives. Our work is grounded in the conviction that an individual's problems are inherently meaningful, that such problems are best understood in a social context, and that treatment leads to a more fulfilling life when the sources of suffering are addressed.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mental health treatment programs,patient care - 19,704 patient program days.
$16,959,937 spent$24,695,178 earned by the program89% of program spendingResearch and education initiatives related to the following topics: professional continuing medical education and continuing education program for mental health clinicians, fellowship training for psychologists and psychiatrists, social work internship program, iop training program, medical student/medical resident elective rotation, erikson scholar program, specialty library and archival collections, public advocacy and education about mental health treatment, research on personality disorders, treatment outcome, psychosis, suicide, loneliness, and psychic pain. Research internship program and psychodynamic research mentorship program.
$2,037,253 spent11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,997,190.
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 2018 to 2019, from $45M to $59M (+31%).
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 9% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Eric M Plakun
Medical director/CEO
Board chair
Lisa A Raskin Phd
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $218k → $203k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC’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
AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
40% 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 AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 50% · 2019 38% · 2020 40% · 2021 51% · 2022 43% · 2023 49% — 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $525k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $690 on record.
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$655
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$35
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 AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER 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 AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC?
- AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,778,296 to it, the largest being OCTOBER MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC ($518,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,778,296 in grants to AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC?
- OCTOBER MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $518,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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