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Boston Pediatric Neurosurgical Foundation Inc

Boston Pediatric Neurosurgical Foundation Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $580,017 to it, the largest being President and Fellows of Harvard College ($536,017). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$21M
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
$580k
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
0/2 repeat funders

Against its field

Boston Pediatric Neurosurgical Foundation Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,579 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve4.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,579 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 99 ($12M) Expenses 89 ($10M) Net assets 126 ($13M)2019 Revenue 102 ($12M) Expenses 125 ($14M) Net assets 108 ($12M)2020 Revenue 103 ($12M) Expenses 105 ($12M) Net assets 118 ($13M)2021 Revenue 120 ($15M) Expenses 121 ($14M) Net assets 142 ($15M)2022 Revenue 110 ($13M) Expenses 122 ($14M) Net assets 125 ($13M)2023 Revenue 144 ($18M) Expenses 173 ($20M) Net assets 112 ($12M)2024 Revenue 170 ($21M) Expenses 168 ($19M) Net assets 112 ($12M)
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Revenue (170)Expenses (168)Net assets (112)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of Boston Pediatric Neurosurgical Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,738 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$617k
17
$1.7M
18
$2.1M
19
$418k
20
$703k
21
$770k
22
$2.4M
23
$1.3M
24
4.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)92% 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 Pediatric Neurosurgical 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 Pediatric Neurosurgical Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Pediatric Neurosurgical Foundation Inc.

92%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

92% of Boston Pediatric Neurosurgical Foundation 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 $44k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.

FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $536k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Boston Pediatric Neurosurgical Foundation Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Boston Children's Hospital · exempt
  • Physicians Organization at Children's Hospital Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Boston Pediatric Neurosurgical 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 Pediatric Neurosurgical Foundation Inc?
Boston Pediatric Neurosurgical Foundation Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $580,017 to it, the largest being President and Fellows of Harvard College ($536,017). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Boston Pediatric Neurosurgical Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $580,017 in grants to Boston Pediatric Neurosurgical Foundation Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Boston Pediatric Neurosurgical Foundation Inc?
President and Fellows of Harvard College is the largest funder on record, with $536,017 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Boston Pediatric Neurosurgical 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing