Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,091,934 to it, the largest being NEW BALANCE FOUNDATION ($3,220,000). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 140
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $42M
What Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to always welcome and connect young people and families to opportunities that embrace diversity, nurture growth, and inspire success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Licensed early education & care - boys & girls clubs of dorchester's early education and care programs have provided high quality childcare in the community for over 25 years. Our goal is to instill a joy of learning in each child. Our programs have received statewide recognition for quality of instruction and classroom environment, and attract national and international observers and visitors to observe our teachers engaged with our students, encouraging learning in an atmosphere of play.our early education and care programs are open to children ages 2 months to 7 years old, and include boston public school k0 and k1 classrooms that offer families extended day programming year-round. The varied curricula involve the children in educational activities inside and outside the classroom that stimulate growth and development in cognitive, emotional and physical skills to prepare them to enter elementary school ready to learn. We use a culturally sensitive approach and our staff reflects the rich diversity of our community, offering children opportunities to preserve their first language while engaging in and developing language and literacy skills in english. Our programs are staffed…
$3,246,569 spent$624,756 earned by the program41% of program spendingRecreation and education - boys & girls clubs of dorchester is a leading youth development organization founded in 1974 to provide a safe haven and life-enhancing programs to at-risk youth in and around dorchester, ma. With three clubhouses, we serve 4,000 youth each year through over 202 programs and activities in the areas of education, athletics, aquatics, college and career prep, art, music, film, social recreation, health and life skills, community service and leadership development. Our programs are fully inclusive, available to children of all abilities.these programs are designed to complement each other; together, they form a comprehensive youth development plan that helps our members thrive today while building the skills they need to succeed throughout their lives. Programming is offered year-round, six days a week; in the summer, we are open for teens until 11:00 p.m., and provide rides home for members who need them. We serve hot meals to 250 children per day, included in their membership fee. The full cost of programming exceeds $2,000 per member, but members pay only $5 per year to participate. The youth development professionals staffing our programs are extremely…
$4,717,912 spent$241,731 earned by the program59% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,964,481.
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 2024 to 2025, from $31M to $46M (+50%).
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 20% · 2018 20% · 2019 22% · 2020 16% · 2021 14% · 2022 21% · 2023 28% · 2024 17% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER 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. 0 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 A Scannell Jr
President & CEO
Board chair
Lee Michael Kennedy
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $3.0M.
18 of 140 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 140 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 DORCHESTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
55% 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 DORCHESTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 36% · 2019 24% · 2020 12% · 2021 15% · 2022 25% · 2023 15% — 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
51% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER 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
73% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER 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. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 DORCHESTER INC runs a healthier operating margin 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 DORCHESTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.5M
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 DORCHESTER 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC?
- BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,091,934 to it, the largest being NEW BALANCE FOUNDATION ($3,220,000). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 140 organizations giving $23,091,934 in grants to BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC, 92 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC?
- NEW BALANCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER 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 140 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