Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON TENANT COALITION INC
BOSTON TENANT COALITION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,826,441 to it, the largest being HERMAN AND FRIEDA L MILLER FOUNDATION ($475,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BOSTON TENANT COALITION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,472 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,472 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Children's Hospital Corporationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Officelocalportfolio match
- Center for Economic Democracy Incshared funders
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.
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: 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BOSTON TENANT COALITION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $110k → $270k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 TENANT COALITION 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 TENANT COALITION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
39% 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 TENANT COALITION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 46% · 2019 50% · 2020 46% · 2021 28% · 2022 44% · 2023 26% — 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
50% of BOSTON TENANT COALITION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
99% of BOSTON TENANT COALITION 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. $175k 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.
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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Children's Hospital Corporationshared funderslocalportfolio matchMA · backs 63 organizations that share your funders · funds 166 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Officelocalportfolio matchMA · funds 193 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Economic Democracy Incshared fundersMA · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pca Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chinese Progressive Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kuehn Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mission Hillfenway Neighborhood Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Social Innovation Forum Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leader Bank Charitable Foundation Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Metro Credit Union Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 TENANT COALITION 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.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 TENANT COALITION 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 TENANT COALITION INC?
- BOSTON TENANT COALITION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,826,441 to it, the largest being HERMAN AND FRIEDA L MILLER FOUNDATION ($475,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSTON TENANT COALITION INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,826,441 in grants to BOSTON TENANT COALITION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON TENANT COALITION INC?
- HERMAN AND FRIEDA L MILLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON TENANT COALITION 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 9funders 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