Massachusetts · Nonprofit
DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC
DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,749,357 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,322,201). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Detectogether Inc Formerly Known as the 15-40 Connection Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to save lives by teaching people how to detect cancer early and how to collaborate with health care professionals to help save their own lives. Early detection is the most effective and most successful treatment for cancer.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Detectogether fills a critical gap in healthcare by turning awareness into action, leading to earlier cancer diagnoses, lives saved, and lower costs. We focus on the power of the individual. Our programs teach people their role in noticing changes and seeking care at the right time. We build the confidence to take action and to work with healthcare providers for better outcomes. Most cancers are not found through screenings. In fact, 86 percent are found in other ways. Early detection often depends on people noticing changes and acting, but most have never been taught how to do this. Through our 3 steps detect program, we give people the skills and confidence to recognize symptoms, trust their instincts, and seek care sooner. We deliver this training to firefighters, students, workplaces, and communities nationwide.
$1,368,017 spent$43,205 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,368,017.
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 $3.4M to $4.5M (+31%).
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 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $221k → $734k.
18 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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
DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
80% 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 DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 39% · 2019 41% · 2020 25% · 2021 57% · 2022 55% · 2023 27% — 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
46% of DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
77% of DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION 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. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION 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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC?
- DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,749,357 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,322,201). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $5,749,357 in grants to DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,322,201 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 77 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