Massachusetts · Nonprofit
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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $580k
- Net assets
- $16M
What Boston Pediatric Neurosurgical Foundation Inc does
Mission
The foundation provides neurosurgical services primarily to patients at boston children's hospital and at satellite locations. The foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field of neurosurgery by (see schedule o) teaching students and other medical and scientific personnel. The foundation also provides care for patients regardless of their ability to pay.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation provides neurosurgical services primarily to patients at boston children's hospital, brigham and women's hospital, inc., and at satellite locations. The foundation may charge for patient care and other medical services, provided that any net income is used for the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes for which the foundation was created. The foundation also provides care for patients regardless of their ability to pay, as well as providing and supporting hospital and community based services that are either unavailable or limited elsewhere in the community. During the year ended september 30, 2025, the foundation performed 6,749 ambulatory visits and 1,086 surgical cases. The foundation provided $445,223 in free care services, had expenditures of $11,890 for research efforts, and (see schedule o) provided funding of $1,248,147 for teaching or educational initiaitives for the year ended september 30, 2025.
$15,336,747 spentof which $112,882 as grants$20,441,711 earned by the program92% of program spendingThe foundation receives income from boston children's hospital for providing administration, supervision, and teaching services. The foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field of neurosurgery by teaching students and other medical and scientific personnel; by providing research grants; giving lectures; and publishing information concerning problems and research results in the field of pediatric neurosurgery in order to educate the general public and the medical profession.
$1,333,627 spent$324,932 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,670,374.
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 $21M to $26M (+22%).
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: 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of BOSTON PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGICAL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
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.
“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.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $536k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGICAL FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BOSTON PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGICAL FOUNDATION INC
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Boston Children's Hospital · exempt
- Physicians Organization at Children's Hospital Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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