Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE INC
COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,304,299 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($3,114,998). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8B
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $-52046329
What Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc does
Mission
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Cca housing solutions, llc, a disregarded entity to cca, was created in 2023 to contract with the executive office of housing and livable communities of the commonwealth of massachusetts to provide emergency shelter related services to refugees in massachusetts.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Commonwealth care alliance (cca) has contracted with community based primary care practices that have demonstrated experience serving adults in a managed care network. Examples of these primary care sites include affiliated physicians group of jamaica plain, boston university geriatrics, brightwood health services, cambridge health alliance, east boston health center, elder service plan of the north shore, harbor health service, upham's corner health center. Cca is one of the six senior care option or "sco organizations in the commonwealth: the sco program is a comprehensive health plan that covers all services reimbursable under a delivery system and its preferred network of providers. Cca is also one of three organizations that offers one care to individuals aged 18 to 64 resident in the commonwealth of massachusetts.
$2,257,303,051 spentof which $336,141 as grants$2,552,712,819 earned by the program100% of program spendingCca housing solutions, llc, a disregarded entity to cca, was created in 2023 to contract with the executive office of housing and livable communities of the commonwealth of massachusetts to provide emergency shelter related services to refugees in massachusetts.
$2,808,535 spent$5,321,735 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,260,111,586.
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 $1.2B to $538M (−56%).
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.
0% of COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Christopher D Palmieri
President & CEO, director
Board chair
David Klein
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $57k → $562k.
From the IRS filings of COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE 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
COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 97% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.4B on record.
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$8.4B
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$25.3M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$598k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$1k
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 COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 30 related entities
- Winter Street Ventures LLC · disregarded
- 747 Cambridge Street LLC · disregarded
- Insted LLC · disregarded
- Cca Housing Solutions LLC · disregarded
- Cca Home LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE INC?
- COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,304,299 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($3,114,998). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,304,299 in grants to COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE INC?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,114,998 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMONWEALTH CARE ALLIANCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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