Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY INROADS INC
COMMUNITY INROADS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $741,006 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($210,850). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $207k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $741k
- Net assets
- $408k
What Community Inroads Inc does
Mission
Community inroads is dedicated to fostering an effective network of nonprofits so that lawrence and haverhill residents have access to the resources they need to reach their fullest potential. We provide consulting, training and board development opportunities at no cost to our nonprofits, so that they in turn can better serve the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Skills based volunteer consulting: our professional-level volunteer consulting program matches the internal operating needs of the lawrence and haverhill nonprofits with the technical and business skills of individuals in the business communities. All volunteer engagements are project based and short-term in nature, with a clearly defined scope of work. The money our pro bono consulting services save our nonprofits can be directly channeled to provide shelter and food for the homeless, affordable homes to low-income residents, education and leadership programs for youth, vocational and esol services, and the creation of safe beautiful neighborhoods.
$166,525 spent100% of program spendingCenter of excellence in board governance and leadership: our volunteers help build engaged boards and executives who understand their responsibilities as leaders of the nonprofit. This program focuses on 3 services: 1. Cultural inclusion program for nonprofit boards (in our 14th year of operations) prepares local professionals of color (also known as recruits) to be leaders on nonprofit boards by providing 12 hours of training on board governance by subject matter experts, 9 hours of facilitated dialogue on cultural inclusion by paid diversity consultants to promote welcoming inclusive boards, the matching of recruits with participating nonprofit boards, and the monitoring of all board placements to help ensure successful experiences for both recruits and nonprofits. The cultural inclusion program was honored with a gateway cities innovation award by mass inc. In highlighting "strategies to increase diversity and equity in civic leadership". The program is also a 2024 commonwealth seminar change maker awardee for promoting local civic engagement. 2. Board tune up (btu) also known as healthy board development, which works with individual boards to strengthen their effectiveness as…
Local workshops on nonprofit management are conducted by subject matter experts.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $166,525.
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 $243k to $362k (+49%).
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: 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of COMMUNITY INROADS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Joan Kulash
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $40k → $90k.
3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 INROADS 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
COMMUNITY INROADS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% 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 INROADS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 39% · 2019 35% · 2020 32% · 2021 27% · 2022 33% · 2023 29% — 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
80% of COMMUNITY INROADS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
84% of COMMUNITY INROADS 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. $231k 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
COMMUNITY INROADS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY INROADS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$5k
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 INROADS 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
97%
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 COMMUNITY INROADS 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 INROADS INC?
- COMMUNITY INROADS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $741,006 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($210,850). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY INROADS INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $741,006 in grants to COMMUNITY INROADS INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY INROADS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $210,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY INROADS 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 21 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