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Brockton Educational Foundation Inc

Brockton Educational Foundation Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $456,176 to it, the largest being PARENTCHILD INC ($257,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$348k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$456k
Net assets
$1.1M
7/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Brockton Educational Foundation Inc does

Mission

To support the brockton public schools by enhancing the learning process for all students. To support the efforts by the school department, individual schools, departments, officers and staff members to raise and manage funds from foundations, corporations and private individuals. The clients of brockton educational inc. Are brockton public school administrators, teachers, parents and school community members.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Programs

  1. BROCKTON PARENT/CHILD PROG (85) started in 2016 and receives large donations each year.Parent/Student/Staff meetings, training and home meetings for troubled youth.

    $66,187 spentof which $20,000 as grants
    18% of program spending
  2. Downey School (09)

    $51,176 spent$1,667 earned by the program
    14% of program spending
  3. Angelo Main Account (1) is for the Angelo Elementary School and funds are dispersed at the discretion of the Principal.

    $37,128 spent$32,420 earned by the program
    10% of program spending
  4. Other program services 4: entrepreneurship project (56) - development of student business skills and exposure to business opportunties other program services 5: angelo main account (1) is for the angelo elementary school and funds are dispersed at the discretion of the principal. Other program services 6: south middle school (23) other program services 7: kennedy school (16) other program services 8: bps innovator fund (38) other program services 9: administrative account (29) other program services 10: george school (07) other program services 11: arnone main account (02) other program services 12: ashfield (03) other program services 13: community outreach (75) other program services 14: baker school (18) other program services 15: barrett russell school (68) other program services 16: academics (93) other program services 17: edgar davis school (08) other program services 18: downey school (09) other program services 19: francis yafrate scholarship (94) other program services 20: stanton memorial scholarship (79) other program services 21: brockton kids count (82) other program services 22: brookfield (06) other program services 23: robert creeden scholarship (63) other program…

    $211,787 spentof which $47,566 as grants$246,699 earned by the program
    58% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $366,278.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($300k) Expenses 100 ($232k) Net assets 100 ($698k)2019 Revenue 90 ($270k) Expenses 108 ($251k) Net assets 103 ($717k)2020 Revenue 75 ($225k) Expenses 74 ($171k) Net assets 111 ($771k)2021 Revenue 148 ($443k) Expenses 57 ($132k) Net assets 155 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 85 ($256k) Expenses 100 ($233k) Net assets 158 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 116 ($348k) Expenses 158 ($366k) Net assets 156 ($1.1M)
201820192020202120222023
Revenue (116)Expenses (158)Net assets (156)Peer revenue range

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 $771k to $1.1M (+40%).

$698k
$717k
$771k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
201820192020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of Brockton Educational Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$67k
’18
$19k
’19
$54k
’20
$311k
’21
$23k
’22
−$18k
’23
36
months of
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

Dr James Cobbs

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.

201820192020202120222023
Listed888636
Joined·+0+0+0+1+5
No longer listed·00242
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $130k → $700.

1 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Brockton Educational Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 14 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

Brockton Educational Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

68% 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 Brockton Educational Foundation Inc.

56%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 99% · 2022 38% · 2023 57% — 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 Brockton Educational Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

Brockton Educational Foundation Inc draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states in all.

NY
MA
RI
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Brockton Educational Foundation Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,636 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · below the median
Months of reserve35.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,636 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
20%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Brockton Educational Foundation Inc?
Brockton Educational Foundation Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $456,176 to it, the largest being PARENTCHILD INC ($257,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Brockton Educational Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $456,176 in grants to Brockton Educational Foundation Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Brockton Educational Foundation Inc?
PARENTCHILD INC is the largest funder on record, with $257,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Brockton Educational Foundation 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 14 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