Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC
COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,685,906 to it, the largest being THE DEVONSHIRE FOUNDATION ($685,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $861k
What College for Social Innovation Inc does
Mission
To educate and inspire the next generation of problem solvers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
College for social innovation (cfsi) is a new college partnership model with a mission of educating and inspiring the next generation of problem solvers. Our model provides opportunities for diverse cohorts of college students to earn a full semester of credit for well-supported fellowships in non-profits, the public sector, and social mission businesses. Students learn through active mentoring, job-related assignments, and related seminars and reflection activities, all of which will help them build career-based competencies, social and emotional skills, and networks. Students serve four days a week with host organizations, working under a dedicated mentor and also participate in a foundation course offered one evening, "the social innovator's tool box, and engage in a skill-building and reflective course on fridays called "becoming a problem solver." participating students earn a full 16 credits (or equivalent) from their home college with no additional tuition or fees. Host organizations are able to invest in future talent through the opportunity to mentor and develop a student fellow. Our long-term goal is to create a bigger, better prepared, and more diverse talent pipeline…
$2,265,406 spent$1,302,524 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,265,406.
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 2022 to 2023, from $783k to $2.3M (+197%).
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 19% · 2022 9% · 2024 29% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Frederick Eric Schwarz
CEO/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $236k → $783k.
8 of 31 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 COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
48% 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 COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 49% · 2019 52% · 2020 44% · 2021 30% · 2022 26% · 2023 45% — 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
46% of COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
66% of COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION 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. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record — $2.7M federal, $2k state.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$2.7M
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$2k
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 COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION 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 COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC?
- COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,685,906 to it, the largest being THE DEVONSHIRE FOUNDATION ($685,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $4,685,906 in grants to COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC?
- THE DEVONSHIRE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $685,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION 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 31 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