Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BORDERLINES FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC STUD IES INCORPORATED
BORDERLINES FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC STUD IES INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,700 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $10k
What Borderlines Foundation for Academic Stud Ies Incorporated does
Mission
Educational and scholarship in the field of slavic studies
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Advancement of cross-cultural academic
$22,459 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $22,459.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $36k to $2k (−94%).
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 BORDERLINES FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC STUD IES INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $45k → $7k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 BORDERLINES FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC STUD IES INCORPORATED’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
BORDERLINES FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC STUD IES INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
BORDERLINES FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC STUD IES INCORPORATED draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BORDERLINES FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC STUD IES INCORPORATED's revenue fell 84% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BORDERLINES FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC STUD IES INCORPORATED
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BORDERLINES FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC STUD IES INCORPORATED?
- BORDERLINES FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC STUD IES INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,700 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BORDERLINES FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC STUD IES INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $68,700 in grants to BORDERLINES FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC STUD IES INCORPORATED, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BORDERLINES FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC STUD IES INCORPORATED?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BORDERLINES FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC STUD IES INCORPORATED 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 4 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