Massachusetts · Nonprofit
EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC
EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,042,704 to it, the largest being ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC ($471,100). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $776k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What East Boston Community Council Inc does
Mission
Neighborhood based organization that promotes the advancement of immigrants of all ages through education, services, advocacy, community organizing, and leadership development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The youth program continues in a recovery path as we needed to rescale this service from approximately 112 students to 50, not only attending east boston high but from the community at large. Those program services include school esl instruction, study skills esl, homework help time, open access computer lab session, healthy lifestyles workshops, movie night and other field trips, and the aspring programs. All programs are geared to keep students enrolled in high school and graduate on time. The program has shown success in meeting those programmatic goals in 2024.
$41,931 spent9% of program spendingThe community legal assistance program (cleap) provides general services such as consulting, advanced parole, translation, preparation of letter to uscis and notary services. The organization set a fiscal year goal of providing access for services to 2,300 individuals. Services were provided to more than 2,198 by the end of the fiscal year. Those services included individuals obtaining temporary protected status (tps), immigration status (other than tps), allowing the renewal of their work permits, assistance in completion of I-130 family petitions which enabled the reunify of families by bringing members still in their homelands to the u.s., and assistance in completing the n-400 and n-600 applications to initiate the naturalization process.
$176,378 spent$309,548 earned by the program40% of program spendingThe adult education and latina esl program provides a comprehensive array of educational and other family support services. Based on organization census, 296 adults have participated in both the latina esl and adult esl programs. Within the latina esl program an advanced level iii was created to increase access to higher education. The organization continues to serve and support pregnant and parenting women with not only the english classes but also by providing free childcare to these women while they participate in esl instruction. These programs are designed to help the latina mothers navigate their way through the us educational and health care systems as they integrate in american society.
$202,632 spent$27,026 earned by the program46% of program spendingOur voice counts (ovc) provides and encourages the residents of east boston to actively participate in the voting process. However, because of restrictions in distancing, no congregating, and other safety measures for staff, these services continued to be limited in 2024. We have continued building a greater capacity for civic engagement work for the future. The organization continues to strengthen existing partnerships and develop new organizational partners to increase the number of registered voters and educate people that have recently become american citizens.
$22,202 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $443,143.
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 $1.6M to $1.8M (+14%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 2% · 2019 6% · 2020 12% · 2021 25% · 2022 13% · 2023 5% · 2024 7% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Frank Ramirez
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $277k → $360k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL 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
EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL 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
66% 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 EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 32% · 2019 46% · 2020 35% · 2021 25% · 2022 19% · 2023 27% — 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 EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
78% of EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL 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. $285k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL 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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC?
- EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,042,704 to it, the largest being ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC ($471,100). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,042,704 in grants to EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC?
- ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC is the largest funder on record, with $471,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL 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 19 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