Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC
CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,590,499 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($727,557). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 111
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Concussion Legacy Foundation Inc does
Mission
The concussion legacy foundation's mission is to support athletes, veterans, and all affected by concussions and cte; achieve smarter sports and safer athletes through education and innovation; and to end cte through prevention and research.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Clf supports multiple research programs focused on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (cte) and other consequences of brain trauma in athletes, veterans and others. Clf leads outreach, recruiting, and education efforts for the brain bank at the boston university cte center, the world's leading cte research center. Clf collaborates with similar brain banks in australia, new zealand, the united kingdom, canada, and brazil. Clf also leads recruting for multiple clinical research programs focused on diagnosing and treating cte.
$2,602,115 spentof which $359,862 as grants$118,719 earned by the program81% of program spendingClf patient and family services program directly supports families fighting concussions, post-concussion syndrome (pcs), and possible cte. The clf helpline has provided over 5,000 patients and families with personalized medical referrals, education, support groups and mentors. Clf education through earned media efforts resulted in placement of dozens of unique stories in leading media including the ny times, washington post, usa today, ap and more. Clf also educates through innovative social media, a website, and webinars.
$519,622 spent16% of program spendingClf educates coaches, parents, athletes, media influencers and policy makers through multiple programs and advocates for concussion and cte prevention and safety. The clf media project trains sports journalism students at 20 universities on how to cover concussions and has trained hundreds of working journalists. To create top-down change, clf leadership serves on advisory boards for multiple sports organizations that set safety policies. Team up against concussion collaborates with youth sports governing bodies to promote concussion awareness.
$105,158 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,226,895.
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 $2.6M to $3.9M (+51%).
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 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 Nowinski
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $64k → $712k.
20 of 111 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 111 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
CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
51% 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 CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 49% · 2019 31% · 2020 34% · 2021 48% · 2022 14% · 2023 13% — 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
42% of CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Concussion Legacy Foundation UK · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION 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 CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC?
- CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,590,499 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($727,557). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 111 organizations giving $4,590,499 in grants to CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $727,557 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION 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 111 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