Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY CATALYST INC
COMMUNITY CATALYST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $176,790,284 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($90,895,972). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $177M
- Net assets
- $42M
What Community Catalyst Inc does
Mission
To build the power of people to create a health system rooted in race equity and health justice and a society where health is a right for all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Voices for health justice project is building the power of health care consumer advocates with a focus on grassroots organizing, racial justice and anti-racism. The project provides grantees across several states financial resources and technical assistance based on community catalyst's system of advocacy. Each of these projects emphasizes building the power of people at the grassroots level to demand and win health system policy change at the national, state and local level. The organization made 88 grants to various nonprofits. See schedule I for detail.
$26,846,290 spentof which $12,083,270 as grants$3,269,877 earned by the program100% of program spendingCoverage and care: organizing for outreach is focused on building partnerships with community-based organizations to connect with people who are more likely to be or become uninsured and help make the enrollment process much easier. By teaming up with existing groups that are embedded in communitiesincluding national, state, and local organizations that excel in power building and community outreach effortscci is able to reach people who are uninsured and inadequately-insured to make sure they know what kind of coverage they may be eligible for, and help them get enrolled. Cci supports on-the-ground outreach, offers tailored messages and resources, and brings partners together from across the country to discuss organizing and education strategies, successes, and challenges.
The center for consumer engagement in health innovation works directly with advocates to increase the skills and power they must establish a permanent and effective voice for consumers, particularly those with complex health and social needs. Collaborating with health plans, hospitals and providers, the center seeks to incorporate the community experience into the design of systems of care. The center works with state and federal policymakers to make systems more responsive to communities by advocating for policies that reduce inequities and improve health. The center is also deepening its current work in support of family caregivers, advocating on policies and supports to improve their quality of life.
The community benefit and economic stability project works with state and local partners to develop community-driven financial assistance practices and billing and collection policies. Cci is also involved in community engagement in health needs assessment to help hospitals better serve their communities and promote economic justice. This includes efforts to improve community benefit programming, hospital policies on financial assistance, and to end predatory billing and collection practices. Cci also provides a platform for people who have medical debt to share their experiences, which helps to shape policies aimed at reducing and eliminating medical debt.the hospital equity and accountability project is an effort designed to address the negative impact of hospital and health industry consolidation on systemically excluded communities including asian, black, indigenous, latinx, and pacific islander communities, immigrants, women, lgbtq+ people, people with disabilities, older adults, and rural residents.the restuccia health justice fellowship is dedicated to supporting the growth and reach of diverse advocacy organizations and their leadership teams situated at the intersection…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,846,290.
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 2020 to 2021, from $28M to $56M (+105%).
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.
73% of COMMUNITY CATALYST INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Robert Phillips Mpa Mph
Chair/director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $8.3M → $26M.
10 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 COMMUNITY CATALYST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
COMMUNITY CATALYST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 COMMUNITY CATALYST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 34% · 2019 28% · 2020 62% · 2021 57% · 2022 55% · 2023 89% — 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
35% of COMMUNITY CATALYST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
COMMUNITY CATALYST INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
COMMUNITY CATALYST INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding COMMUNITY CATALYST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $44.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$44.1M
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 COMMUNITY CATALYST 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
51%
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 1 related entity
- Community Catalyst Action Fund Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY CATALYST 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 COMMUNITY CATALYST INC?
- COMMUNITY CATALYST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $176,790,284 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($90,895,972). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY CATALYST INC have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $176,790,284 in grants to COMMUNITY CATALYST INC, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY CATALYST INC?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,895,972 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY CATALYST 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 69 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