Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BASICNEEDS US INC
BASICNEEDS US INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,292 to it, the largest being ECOM FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ORIGIN RESOURCES ($231,786). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $315k
- Net assets
- $28k
What Basicneeds US Inc does
Mission
BasicNeeds US promotes the development of community support groups in the global south for marginalized people with mental illness. We fund development strategies for training community groups to provide mutual support through inclusive village banking practices, participatory dialogue and cooperative livelihoods. We provide seed funding and consultation to promote these innovative efforts globally in partnership with the BasicNeeds Network, CBM UK and other global mental health leadership groups.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Promoting VSLAs in Community Support Groups: In April 2025, BNUS travelled to Ghana to visit with inclusive VSLA groups. We met with BN Ghana staff, local groups and government officials to identify development issues and review progress from previous years' grants from the ECOM Foundation. The visit was important to better understand local conditions, capacity and opportunities for success. To strengthen the process and documentation behind establishing Inclusive VSLAs, BNUS provided unrestricted support from reserves for BasicNeeds Basic Rights Kenya and BasicNeeds Ghana to work together to document the VSLA work for expansion in the BasicNeeds Network.
$4,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants100% of program spendingIncreasing the capacity of the BasicNeeds Network: BasicNeeds US developed and agreed to a letter of intent in late September 2025 for CBM UK to host a $25K reserve fund starting in 2026 to be used for key development expenses of the BasicNeeds Network, as directed by the new leadership from Ghana and Kenya. We will continue supporting cooperative governance and shared practice within the BasicNeeds Network globally. All time and costs were pro bono.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $4,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $76k to $22k (−71%).
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 BASICNEEDS US INC’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. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $33k → $33k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 BASICNEEDS US 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
BASICNEEDS US INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 BASICNEEDS US INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 78% · 2022 98% · 2023 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
BASICNEEDS US INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BASICNEEDS US INC's revenue fell 69% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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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 BASICNEEDS US 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 BASICNEEDS US INC?
- BASICNEEDS US INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,292 to it, the largest being ECOM FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ORIGIN RESOURCES ($231,786). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BASICNEEDS US INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $315,292 in grants to BASICNEEDS US INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BASICNEEDS US INC?
- ECOM FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ORIGIN RESOURCES is the largest funder on record, with $231,786 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BASICNEEDS US 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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