Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,935,017 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($3,575,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology does
Mission
Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology is an affordable, urban college serving the boston region and committed to student success and career readiness in technology fields. Through personalized support, hands-on learning, and industry-informed curricula, Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology prepares graduates for work, life-long learning, and citizenship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology (Franklin Cummings Tech) offers programs that align with job opportunities in high-growth fields like clean energy, robotics, automation, construction management, and biotech. Franklin Cummings Tech achieved an operating surplus in the past four consecutive fiscal years. Total operating dollars raised were up 34% over last fiscal year. For fiscal year 2025 net tuition revenue represented 33% of total operating revenue and contributions and grants represented 62% of revenue with the remaining 4% coming from other income. Franklin Cummings Tech currently has approximately 147 full and part-time faculty and staff. Franklin Cummings Tech believes in making personalized, flexible education affordable and accessible for everyone, creating a more equitable and resilient Greater Boston through access to family-sustaining income. During the year the college served a total of 1,125 students, a 12% increase over last year with 55% traditional students, 29% in the newly created division of workforce development and continuing studies, and 16% in early college programs. During Fiscal year 2023 Franklin Cummings Tech received all its approvals…
$17,840,387 spentof which $5,305,163 as grants$12,373,440 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,840,387.
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 2023 to 2024, from $23M to $45M (+99%).
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 5% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 15% · 2021 27% · 2022 7% · 2023 9% · 2024 10% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Aisha Francis PhD
President & CEO
Board chair
Turahn Dorsey
Chair Board of Trustees
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $304k → $6.1M.
13 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
33% 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 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 41% · 2019 39% · 2020 30% · 2021 69% · 2022 22% · 2023 26% — 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
33% of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
93% of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.5M on record.
- Department of Education$6.1M
- National Science Foundation$2.2M
- Department of Labor$799k
- Department of Commerce$322k
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 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Franklin Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY?
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,935,017 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($3,575,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $18,935,017 in grants to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY?
- CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) is the largest funder on record, with $3,575,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 66 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