Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION
BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,995,097 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($2,250,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Boston Food Forest Coalition does
Mission
At the intersection of racial equity and climate resilience, the Boston Food Forest Coalition is a community of neighbors transforming vacant lots into public edible parks called "food forests" for permanent protection and community ownership. Together, we are building resilience in boston through more equitable access to healthy green space and greater connection to each other and the natural world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Transformed vacant lots into food forest public parks across the city of boston, prioritizing neighborhoods where there is inequitable access to parkland and its critical benefits. Offering food forest maintenance, gardening, and community engagement workshops.
$591,757 spent$185 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $591,757.
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.
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 $1.8M to $4.7M (+161%).
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 40% · 2022 20% · 2023 6% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $3k → $1.1M.
7 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 FOOD FOREST COALITION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 FOOD FOREST COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 FOOD FOREST COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 22% · 2022 68% · 2023 45% — 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
20% of BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
97% of BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
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 FOOD FOREST COALITION: 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 FOOD FOREST COALITION?
- BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,995,097 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($2,250,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $5,995,097 in grants to BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION?
- FIDELITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 35 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