Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BSA FOUNDATION
BSA FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $442,915 to it, the largest being JAMPART CHARITABLE TRUST ($130,400). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $757k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $443k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Bsa Foundation does
Mission
The Bsa Foundation exists to improve the quality of life for boston-area residents by championing the innovation in the built environment. As a community non-profit organization, we achieve this mission in partnership with the boston society of architects by catalyzing and collaborating on innovation initiatives aimed at addressing equity and sustainability challenges in the built environment. Our goal is to build a healthy, just and sustainable boston, together.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The educational programs and exhibits hosted by the Bsa Foundation enable it to provide communities with a wide array of resources that highlight important aspects of architecture and the built environment and demonstrate how they can be leveraged to address equity and climate change.
$561,273 spent$1,876 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $561,273.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.8M to $3.2M (−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: 2022 12% · 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of BSA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Daynson Tavares
Executive director
Board chair
Rebecca Berry
Chair and trustee
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $16k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $3.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Boston Society of Architects). These are real filings, and they are not money BSA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of BSA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BSA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 66% · 2021 59% · 2022 80% · 2023 94% — 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 BSA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
100% of BSA FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BSA FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding BSA FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $229k on record — $50k federal, $179k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$179k
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 BSA FOUNDATION
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
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Boston Society of Architects · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BSA FOUNDATION: 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 BSA FOUNDATION?
- BSA FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $442,915 to it, the largest being JAMPART CHARITABLE TRUST ($130,400). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BSA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $442,915 in grants to BSA FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BSA FOUNDATION?
- JAMPART CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $130,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BSA FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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