Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BE THE CHANGE INC
BE THE CHANGE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,102,596 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($690,585). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared funders
- MoveOn Education Fundportfolio match
- Alliance for Youth Organizingportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1.7M → $10k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 BE THE CHANGE 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
BE THE CHANGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 BE THE CHANGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 45% · 2019 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
70% of BE THE 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 $624k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 109 organizations that share your funders
- MoveOn Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for Youth Organizingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Voter Participation Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Onward Togetherportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indivisible Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Democracy Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arca Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chestnut Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tabachnick Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for American Progressportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BE THE CHANGE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Be the Change Action Fund Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BE THE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BE THE CHANGE INC?
- BE THE CHANGE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,102,596 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($690,585). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BE THE CHANGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,102,596 in grants to BE THE CHANGE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BE THE CHANGE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $690,585 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BE THE 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 16funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing