Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC
BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,894,709 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,739,221). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 91
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc does
Mission
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Breakthrough greater boston, inc. ("btgb") works to improve educational equity by inspiring excitement for learning, creating paths to college, and promoting careers in education. Btgb stands apart from other college access programs in that they offer comprehensive academic support that intervenes early and continues for ten years. The students teaching students model features near-peer instruction and mentoring. Btgb has consistently demonstrated what low-income students and students of color can achieve at the highest level when engaged in in a culture of high expectations and provided the support necessary to advance academically.with an intensive five-week summer program, monthly "super saturday" program, additional tutoring, and consistent advocacy with teachers and families. Btgbs high school program ensures that each student gains admittance to college through year-round advocacy, a ladder of summer opportunities and a highly personalized college access program. Btgb's teacher training program trains high-achieving college students to shoulder the responsibilities of full-time teachers in the summer program and school year program, with guidance from professional educators.
$2,979,855 spentof which $34,839 as grants$102,124 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,979,855.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.8M to $4.2M (+137%).
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: 2021 7% · 2023 10% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Oneda Horne
Co executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.6M.
22 of 91 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 91 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
BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
72% 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 BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 19% · 2019 29% · 2020 23% · 2021 40% · 2022 21% · 2023 20% — 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 BREAKTHROUGH GREATER 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
57% of BREAKTHROUGH GREATER 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 $6.0M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.9M 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
BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $392k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$392k
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 BREAKTHROUGH GREATER 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON 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 BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC?
- BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,894,709 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,739,221). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 91 organizations giving $13,894,709 in grants to BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,739,221 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREAKTHROUGH GREATER 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 91 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