Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC
BOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,605 to it, the largest being COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS FOUNDATION INC ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $437k
- Net assets
- $316k
What Boston Children's Foundation Inc does
Mission
To provide an integrated, community-based trauma response program utilizing state-of-the-art, trauma-specific intervention strategies with the goal of decreasing the negative effects of maltreatment and exposure to traumatic incidents and community violence on children, youth, and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide an integrated, community-based trauma response program utilizing state-of-the-art, trauma-specific intervention strategies with the goal of decreasing the negative effects of maltreatment and exposure to traumatic incidents and community violence on children, youth and families and to provide emergency stabilization responses for massachusetts residents disproportionately impacted by the covid-19 pandemic as well as to provide intermediate and long-term psychosocial support services for children, families and elders struggling with covid-19 grief, loss, food, fuel, and housing shortages.the program includes the rainbow dance program. Trauma informed care training, pfa. Spr. Ptsm tic 101 and 102 certification, suicide prevention and trauma-informed leadership change workshops. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, which had an extreme impact on boston and the metro boston neighborhoods, the boston children's foundation was called upon by the departments of public health and mental health to respond to and offer trauma-informed support for multiple losses and extreme toxic stress for health care workers and neighborhood psychosocial specialists.between july 1, 2022 and june 30,…
$1,209,821 spent$53,627 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,209,821.
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 2021 to 2022, from $287k to $395k (+38%).
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 81% · 2018 88% · 2019 83% · 2020 93% · 2021 94% · 2022 96% · 2023 94% · 2024 96% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of BOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Robert Macy
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $400k → $31.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC’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
BOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
100% of BOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION 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. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.3M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$6.3M
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$22k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$4k
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 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION 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 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC?
- BOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,605 to it, the largest being COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS FOUNDATION INC ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $436,605 in grants to BOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC?
- COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION 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 7 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