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CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC

CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,340,903 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($455,188). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.0M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$657k
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Center for Comunity Health Ed Research and Service Inc does

Mission

To collaborate, convene and contribute to improve the health of communities, thru community led research, health equity advocacy, and service.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Education of health professional students for a career in communitysettings through academic health centers and support famliy advocatesin community health centers.

    $955,366 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $955,366.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($777k) Expenses 100 ($753k) Net assets 100 ($271k)2018 Revenue 126 ($977k) Expenses 126 ($949k) Net assets 126 ($342k)2019 Revenue 107 ($835k) Expenses 110 ($827k) Net assets 151 ($410k)2020 Revenue 121 ($938k) Expenses 122 ($922k) Net assets 208 ($564k)2021 Revenue 157 ($1.2M) Expenses 126 ($948k) Net assets 324 ($879k)2022 Revenue 128 ($993k) Expenses 121 ($908k) Net assets 321 ($871k)2023 Revenue 111 ($863k) Expenses 122 ($921k) Net assets 300 ($814k)2024 Revenue 107 ($832k) Expenses 128 ($963k) Net assets 252 ($682k)2025 Revenue 131 ($1.0M) Expenses 139 ($1.0M) Net assets 242 ($657k)
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Revenue (131)Expenses (139)Net assets (242)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $781k (−29%).

$707k
$823k
$808k
$869k
$1.2M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$781k
$975k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 36% · 2018 42% · 2019 53% · 2020 49% · 2021 36% · 2022 45% · 2023 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$24k
’17
$28k
’18
$8k
’19
$16k
’20
$272k
’21
$85k
’22
−$58k
’23
−$131k
’24
−$25k
’25
7.2
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.

Board chair

Lumas Helaire

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed181818181818151717
Joined·+6+0+0+5+4+5+3+6
No longer listed·60054816
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $112k → $130k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC’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

CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

93% 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 CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC.

34%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 61% · 2019 86% · 2020 46% · 2021 34% · 2022 42% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.

“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

50% of CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $571k 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

CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve7.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC?
CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,340,903 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($455,188). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,340,903 in grants to CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC?
Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $455,188 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE 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 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