Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC
BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,789,849 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($460,734). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc does
Mission
The boston area rape crisis center (barcc) works to end sexual violence through healing and social change. As the only rape crisis center in greater boston and one of the nation's oldest, barcc provides free, inclusive, empowerment-based services to survivors ages 12 and older and their families. Founded as a volunteer-led organization, barcc continues to rely on a nationally recognized volunteer program that includes 40 hours of counselor training and ongoing supervision and support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Client services: counseling: barcc works with sexual violence survivors and their loved ones to address and heal from sexual violence through sessions each year. 24-hour crisis hotline: highly trained and supervised volunteers provide in the moment support 24-7 to 4,200 callers case management: barcc offers over 1,000 sessions for short-term assistance to survivors with the complex issues that arise in the aftermath of sexual violence e.g., emergency housing, and victim compensation. Legal advocacy: barcc offers comprehensive legal assistance helping survivors explore and/or work through criminal and civil legal issues stemming from an assault through 1,200 sessions each year. Access to forensic information (afi) project: we work with agencies throughout massachusetts to ensure survivors receive accurate information about their options for sexual assault exams and evidence collection. Prison rape elimination act (prea) rape crisis services: supports survivors of sexual violence who are incarcerated in massachusetts with hotline and hospital accompaniment services.
$3,483,283 spent$4,566,109 earned by the program100% of program spendingCommunity engagement and prevention: community awareness and prevention services : the organization participates in over 160 events annually providing education and training to schools, college campuses, police, businesses and community-based organizations. Movement for access, safety, and survivors (mass) collaboration: the collaboration works to make services more supportive and accessible to survivors with disabilities.
Client services: counseling: barcc works with sexual violence survivors and their loved ones to address and heal from sexual violence through 2,670 sessions each year. 24-hour crisis hotline: highly trained and supervised volunteers provide in the moment support 24-7 to 4,200 callers
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,483,283.
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 $3.4M to $2.2M (−37%).
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 65% · 2018 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $184k → $522k.
12 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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 RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
62% 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 RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 20% · 2019 22% · 2020 40% · 2021 35% · 2022 23% · 2023 40% — 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.
How long its funders stay
36% of BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
53% of BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER 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 $1.3M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC's revenue grew 39% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31.3M on record — $1.7M federal, $29.6M state.
- Department of Justice$1.7M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$16.8M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$12.8M
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$63k
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.
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER 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 RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC?
- BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,789,849 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($460,734). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $2,789,849 in grants to BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $460,734 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER 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.
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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 79 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