Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC
BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,713 to it, the largest being COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE INC ($20,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,089 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- Move Unitedshared fundersportfolio match
- The Lenny Zakim Fundlocalportfolio match
- Colonial Federal Savings Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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.
99% of BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $27k → $38k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 SELF HELP CENTER 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 SELF HELP CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
92% 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 SELF HELP CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 56% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 93% · 2023 53% — 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
25% of BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% 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
52% of BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER 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. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
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.
- Move Unitedshared fundersportfolio matchMD · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Lenny Zakim Fundlocalportfolio matchMA · funds 73 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Colonial Federal Savings Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Goddard Health Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Easton Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stoneham Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Boston Community Development Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bma Tenpoint Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hometown Bank Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Salem Five Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boston After School & Beyond InclocalMA · funds 155 organizations near you
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 SELF HELP CENTER 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
64%
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 SELF HELP CENTER 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 SELF HELP CENTER INC?
- BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,713 to it, the largest being COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE INC ($20,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $93,713 in grants to BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC?
- COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 10funders 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