Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC
CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,678 to it, the largest being BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ($205,198). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $106M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $291k
- Net assets
- $26M
What Central Boston Elder Services Inc does
Mission
To provide home care services, referrals and advocacy to the elderly population located in the boston area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
State home care grant - provides home, chore and personal care to eligible elderly clients in the boston area.
$6,958,790 spentof which $5,218,328 as grants$7,622,181 earned by the program7% of program spendingCommunity choices - provides services to medicaid eligible elders for the purpose of preventing nursing home placements.
$34,416,101 spentof which $31,830,103 as grants$35,672,651 earned by the program35% of program spendingSenior care options - provides case management services and purchased services to sco clients on a fee for service basis or on a unit basis.
$46,166,749 spentof which $40,638,148 as grants$51,235,096 earned by the program46% of program spendingOther programs - other programs include but are not limited to the enhanced community options program, clinical assessment and eligibility program, protective services program and other corporate initiatives. All of these programs are designed to provide vital services to the elderly population in the boston area.
$12,052,261 spentof which $4,216,092 as grants$11,002,485 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $99,593,901.
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 $42M to $45M (+7%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Sylvia Exantus
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $118k → $15k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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
29% of CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
81% of CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC is better cushioned than half of the 178 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 178 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $349.2M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$344.7M
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$3.9M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$607k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$11k
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 CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES 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
94% 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 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Eldercare Alliance Inc · exempt
- Cbes Development LLC · partnership
- Cbes Management LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC?
- CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,678 to it, the largest being BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ($205,198). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $290,678 in grants to CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC?
- BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $205,198 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES 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 11 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