Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,851,117 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($5,434,850). 40 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
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Center for Economic Democracy Inc does
Mission
The center for economic democracy [c.e.d.] is a u.s. Social movement building organization, growing capacity in our communities to transform american capitalism into a more just, sustainable and democratic economy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ced completed several major milestones in 2025:1) ced launched the brave narratives project in collaboration with local partners to release the "a collective future" documentary about inspiring examples of community ownership models, and organized boston-area residents to pledge in support of economic democracy projects. 2) ced mobilized the resources and built the infrastructure for a community led decision making process that's incubated community ownership projects statewide. 3) ced led the first movement finance forum convening that brought together practitioners from across several ecosystems to advance a coordinated network approach, and successfully launched the people's budget survey to strengthen resident-led demands of the city budget, while our coalition for worker ownership and power's new research and policy agenda was developed.
$3,409,753 spentof which $1,396,475 as grants$65,049 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,409,753.
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 2023 to 2024, from $16M to $9.6M (−41%).
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.
95% of CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $599k → $3.7M.
20 of 75 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 CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 90% · 2019 36% · 2020 31% · 2021 29% · 2022 23% · 2023 35% — 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
42% of CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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 CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY 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 $10M that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$25k
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 CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY 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
77% 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 34 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY 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 CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC?
- CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,851,117 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($5,434,850). 40 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 CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $23,851,117 in grants to CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC?
- IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $5,434,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY 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.
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 75 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing