Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC
CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,574,915 to it, the largest being E4THEFUTURE INC ($435,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Center for Ecotechnology Inc does
Mission
The center for ecotechnology helps people and businesses save energy and reduce waste. For more than 40 years, weve offered proven advice and resources to save you money, make you more comfortable at home, and help your business perform better.working with partners throughout the region, were helping transform the way we live and work for a better community, economy, and environment now and for the future. We provide practical solutions that save energy, materials and money and have a positive impact on our environment and community. We serve residents, business and communities in the areas of energy efficiency and waste reduction.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Commercial - cet partners with government, industry and foundations to provide outreach, education and technical assistance to businesses, institutions and farms to help them save energy, reduce waste and improve environmental performance. Services include innovative pilot and production scale work in wasted food recovery, energy efficiency, renewable energy, waste reduction and recycling. Cet also provides energy efficiency services to existing multifamily homes for customers of utility companies. These services included energy audits with installation of energy efficient lighting and other savings measures as well as recommending, arranging and inspecting contracted insulation and air sealing work to save additional energy.
$5,702,704 spent56% of program spendingResidential - cet partners with government, industry and foundations to perform innovative pilot programs to help increase energy savings in homes, participation in these practices, and the health and economic benefits to participants. Cet also provides energy efficiency services to existing single family homes for customers of utility companies. These services include energy audits with installation of energy efficient lighting and other savings easures as well as recommending, arranging and inspecting contracted insulation and air sealing work to save dditional energy. Cet also provides technical assistance to builders and homeowners to improve the environmental performance of new homes. Services include plan review, recommendations, inspection and verification, and assistance with participation in incentive and rating programs (energy star, leed for homes) and code compliance.
$4,237,240 spent42% of program spendingRetail - cet operated ecobuilding bargains, a used building materials store that accepted donations of used and surplus doors, windows, cabinets, and plumbing and electrical fixtures to save them from disposal and sells them at low cost to help others fix up their homes. Retail operations ceased during fiscal year 2024 and the building was sold during 2025.
$242,665 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,182,609.
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 2024 to 2025, from $6.1M to $3.6M (−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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 18% · 2018 21% · 2019 32% · 2020 34% · 2021 39% · 2022 26% · 2023 30% · 2024 27% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Ashley Muspratt
President & CEO
Board chair
Janet Warren
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $188k → $315k.
4 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 ECOTECHNOLOGY 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 ECOTECHNOLOGY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
53% 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 ECOTECHNOLOGY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 75% · 2019 31% · 2020 32% · 2021 28% · 2022 19% · 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
35% of CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $367k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 ECOTECHNOLOGY INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.1M on record — $4.0M federal, $4.1M state.
- Department of Agriculture$3.0M
- Environmental Protection Agency$968k
- Management Consultant Services$1.8M
- Environmental Consulting Servi$1.3M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$961k
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 ECOTECHNOLOGY 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY 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 ECOTECHNOLOGY INC?
- CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,574,915 to it, the largest being E4THEFUTURE INC ($435,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,574,915 in grants to CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC?
- E4THEFUTURE INC is the largest funder on record, with $435,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY 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 30 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