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Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BE THE CHANGE INC (Massachusetts) is funded by 12 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $607,346 in grants to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($180,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
$10k from 1 funders in 2019, up from $194k and 7 in 2017.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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.
BE THE CHANGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 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.
BE THE CHANGE INC is locally rooted: 61% of its grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
70% of spending goes to programs.
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 38 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is 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 12funders 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. view filing