Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC
BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,690,790 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($619,125). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 100
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Boston Area Gleaners Inc does
Mission
Boston area gleaners is committed to increasing access to fresh fruits and vegetables across our communities while supporting our region's farms and reducing systemic food waste.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Harvested/gleaned 1,861,677 pounds of produce left in the fields by local area farmers; grew and harvested 337,337 pounds of vegetables on stonefield farm; packed and distributed all produce and transported it in our fleet of 23 refrigerated trucks to our array of partners: food banks, food pantries, meal programs and shelters who make it available to families and individuals. Through the food hub we also help local farmers find markets for their produce with businesses, schools, and nonprofit organizations and provide subsidized pick up and delivery services that maximize participation.
$7,619,441 spentof which $4,567,517 as grants$1,967,910 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,619,441.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $2.8M to $5.4M (+92%).
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: 2021 50% · 2022 16% · 2024 18% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Usha Thakrar
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $106k → $1.2M.
15 of 100 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 100 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
BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
38% 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 BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 29% · 2019 15% · 2020 22% · 2021 21% · 2022 16% · 2023 10% — 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
49% of BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
82% of BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.8M on record — $4.2M federal, $3.5M state.
- Department of Agriculture$4.2M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3.5M
- (FF) FACILITY OPERATIONAL EXPENSES$555
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 BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 BOSTON AREA GLEANERS 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 BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC?
- BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,690,790 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($619,125). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 100 organizations giving $7,690,790 in grants to BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC, 68 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $619,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON AREA GLEANERS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 100 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