Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 297 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,658,662 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($31,415,700). 195 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $42M
- Funders on record
- 297
- Grants received
- $110M
- Net assets
- $152M
What Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc does
Mission
Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. We believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. Through our comprehensive focus on academics, workforce development, and health & wellness, we're not just closing opportunity gaps-we're building pathways to success for the next generation of leaders. While our clubs are safe spaces, they are also catalysts for excellence where youth find their voice, develop their talents, and imagine their futures. With dedicated mentors, individualized programming, and strong community partnerships, we empower our members to rise above challenges and become the leaders, innovators, and engaged citizens of tomorrow.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Freestanding clubs -"the club is a place where you make a family outside your family. The staff are very supportive of the members and embrace all with open arms. It is a place that will help you find yourself and hone in on skills that you will need in the future." quote from almuni of berkshire partners blue hill club.bgcb offers accessible and affordable after-school time programming to children and teens in our freestanding clubs located in charlestown, chelsea, dorchester, roxbury, and south boston. Our club facilities and age-appropriate settings create a sense of physical and emotional safety for our members and our staff make the club feel like home - fostering a family atmosphere. The professional staff, including licensed social workers, actively cultivate relationships with members to ensure they feel connected and have a strong sense of stability and belonging as well as have fun! Members develop critical thinking, physical, social, technological, artistic and life skills by participating in interactive activities intentionally designed to support their development and overall well-being in the following areas: education, music & arts, sports, fitness, and recreation,…
$23,326,823 spentof which $239,428 as grants$698,064 earned by the program83% of program spendingYouthconnect - in partnership with the boston police department, youthconnect is an advocacy and intervention program of boys & girls clubs of boston that helps the most at-risk young people make positive life choices through trusting relationships with skilled and compassionate social workers. Our direct partnership with law enforcement allows us to immediately intervene with the child at the critical moment when they are engaging in-or at risk of - engaging in delinquent activity. Our relationships with both government agencies and community based providers, allow our staff to then help secure the most appropriate level of care and services needed to help the young person get back on track for a more hopeful future. Youthconnect's innovative clinical model enables social workers to not only assist a wide-range of youth, but also help their families. Services are often put in place for the younger children in the family to help ensure their academic and out-of-school time needs are met, and youthconnect also works with the teen's parent/guardian to address their concerns and needs. In addition, our staff provide community-based counseling to address issues related to truancy,…
$2,479,620 spent9% of program spendingShared space and dedicated site clubs - the boys & girls clubs of boston operate shared space clubs located in the community of dorchester. In addition to the shared space clubs, boys & girls clubs of boston operates two dedicated site clubs located in mattapan and roxbury, the josh kraft mattapan teen center and the orchard gardens club.one of the exciting projects worked on by members of the josh kraft mattapan teen center was a film entitled mattapan, the documentary, (which can be found on youtube). A member said this about that experience "mattapan, the documentary was recently entered into an international film festival that won "best under 18 documentary of the year." with that, it shows the world is filled with endless opportunity. And with the help of others, it's impossible for you to lose. That's what it means to be at the club."the shared space and dedicated site clubs provide the opportunity to serve more youth where they live or go to school via quality afterschool programs that are based on six core program elements that include arts, education, leadership, life skills, sports, fitness, recreation and technology. At the orchard gardens club and the josh kraft…
$2,351,420 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,157,863.
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 2020 to 2021, from $113M to $131M (+16%).
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: 2017 6% · 2018 7% · 2019 6% · 2020 9% · 2021 17% · 2022 13% · 2023 14% · 2024 25% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Robert Lewis Jr
CEO & nicholas president
Board chair
Melissa Weiner Janfaza
Director, chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 76 funders to 129 funders, grant income rose $8.1M → $10M.
27 of 297 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $14M from 15 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Boston Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 297 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
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
62% 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 39% · 2019 36% · 2020 28% · 2021 27% · 2022 61% · 2023 29% — 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
57% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
56% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON 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 $48M that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Against its field
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 144 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 144 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record — $49k federal, $2.3M state.
- Department of Agriculture$49k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.7M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$590k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$53k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Perpetual Charitable Trust (1) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC?
- BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 297 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,658,662 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($31,415,700). 195 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 297 organizations giving $109,658,662 in grants to BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC, 195 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $31,415,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON 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.
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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 297 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing