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BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC

BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,649,522 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($843,483). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.4M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$4.6M
Net assets
$17M
18/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Boston Collegiate Charter School Foundation Inc does

Mission

To promote the financial well-being of boston collegiate charter school by soliciting, receiving and administering funds for construction, operation and maintenance of a permanent home for the school.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Boston collegiate charter school foundation, inc (the foundation) supports boston collegiate charter school (the school) by providing philanthropic dollars, facilities, and leadership. In fy25, philanthropic funds from the foundation provided both restricted and unrestricted budget offset to the school for activities outside of the school's core academic program. Examples of initiatives funded by philanthropy in fy25 include, but are not limited to: alumni support; senior scholarships; social emotional learning interventions; athletics offerings; professional development for instructional staff; literacy intervention materials; expansion of our in-school music program; academic remediation; after school arts activities; and the school's students in need program, which provides basic needs -- such as glasses, uniforms, and school supplies -- to students and families who are struggling financially. The foundation supports the school's overall mission of preparing each of its 700 students for college. With support from the foundation, boston collegiate is proud of the following accomplishments achieved in fy25:- for the twenty-second consecutive year, 100% of boston collegiate's…

    $1,680,674 spentof which $1,301,049 as grants$68,439 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,680,674.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($20M)2018 Revenue 111 ($3.3M) Expenses 113 ($1.4M) Net assets 88 ($18M)2019 Revenue 97 ($2.9M) Expenses 195 ($2.4M) Net assets 91 ($18M)2020 Revenue 68 ($2.0M) Expenses 158 ($2.0M) Net assets 91 ($18M)2021 Revenue 90 ($2.7M) Expenses 212 ($2.7M) Net assets 91 ($18M)2022 Revenue 82 ($2.5M) Expenses 170 ($2.1M) Net assets 89 ($18M)2023 Revenue 61 ($1.8M) Expenses 126 ($1.6M) Net assets 88 ($18M)2024 Revenue 89 ($2.7M) Expenses 315 ($4.0M) Net assets 81 ($16M)2025 Revenue 80 ($2.4M) Expenses 144 ($1.8M) Net assets 84 ($17M)
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Revenue (80)Expenses (144)Net assets (84)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $33M to $40M (+23%).

$32M
$38M
$39M
$37M
$34M
$33M
$40M
$37M
$36M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

78% of BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.7M
’17
$1.9M
’18
$450k
’19
$58k
’20
$33k
’21
$340k
’22
$255k
’23
−$1.3M
’24
$599k
’25
44
months of
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.

Board chair

Charles Cassidy

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed7998912121211
Joined·+2+0+1+1+3+0+0+0
No longer listed·00200001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $196k → $717k.

9 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL 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 COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

63% 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 COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC.

18%
largest funder
46%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 41% · 2019 36% · 2020 23% · 2021 22% · 2022 23% · 2023 26% — 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.

How long its funders stay

47% of BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
MD
DE
NC
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Months of reserve44.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 5%Fundraising 2%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

73%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC?
BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,649,522 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($843,483). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $4,649,522 in grants to BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $843,483 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL 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.

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 29 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