Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER
BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,802,924 to it, the largest being BROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($730,011). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $953k
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Brookline Teen Center does
Mission
Btc's vision is for all brookline students to engage in their community and emerge ready for college, career, and beyond. Our mission is to provide a platform where all teens can explore, create, and discover who they are. Through responsive programming, we prepare teens to safely navigate adolescence in a nurturing and joyful environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fy25, the Brookline Teen Center continued to serve students in grades 6 -12 five days per week, providing consistent after-school enrichment and a safe, structured space for teens who live in brookline or attend brookline schools. Our mission remains clear: to fill critical gaps in our community by offering meaningful programming and supervision outside of school hours when teens need it most. Btc offered a dynamic array of programs including tutoring, mentoring, cooking club, robotics, bowling, basketball, baseball, volleyball, crochet, field trips (both local and beyond massachusetts) and daily access to our state-of-the-art music studio where teens explore everything from beginner instrument lessons to music engineering and producing original songs. In 2025, we expanded hands-on stem learning through a partnership with boston university's anatomy academy, bringing medical and pre-health students into the center to lead interactive science sessions, including dissections and experiential anatomy programming. This initiative made science engaging, accessible, and exciting for our teens while strengthening our academic enrichment offerings. We also broadened our cultural and…
$898,122 spent$75,775 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $898,122.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $3.5M to $2.8M (−21%).
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 12% · 2022 5% · 2023 38% · 2024 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $167k → $207k.
10 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 45% · 2019 38% · 2020 36% · 2021 63% · 2022 53% · 2023 32% — 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
36% of BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
71% of BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER'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 $531k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER's revenue grew 36% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$100k
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 BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER
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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER: 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 BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER?
- BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,802,924 to it, the largest being BROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($730,011). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,802,924 in grants to BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER?
- BROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $730,011 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 39 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