Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GROUPS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GROUPS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($18,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $110k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $37k
What Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems does
Mission
To further the understanding of groups and organizations as social systems, with particular attention to unconscious and covert processes in group and organizational life, the dynamics of authority and authorization, power and other differences within and among socially diverse groups, and the negotiated use of interpretation to facilitate collaborative learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Conference held for its members to study and examine group and social interactions in a residential setting. The conference consists of small group, large group and intergroup events. Attendees come from government, psychotherapy and non-profit backgrounds. In addition, seminars and events are held which includes conference reviews and the annual meeting for the benefit of members of the organization to review events offered and the year in review.
$88,341 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $88,341.
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 $101k to $68k (−33%).
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.
5% of CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GROUPS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THE STUDY OF GROUPS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GROUPS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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.
Against its field
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GROUPS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GROUPS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS
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.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GROUPS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS: 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 THE STUDY OF GROUPS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS?
- CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GROUPS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($18,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GROUPS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $18,000 in grants to CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GROUPS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GROUPS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS?
- BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GROUPS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS 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 1 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