Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC
ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,306,323 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,000,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What English for New Bostonians Inc does
Mission
English for new bostonians ensures access to high-quality english classes so that adult immigrants across race, education, and migratory backgrounds can pursue their aspirations and contribute to a commonwealth that fully values their talents and voices.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Esol programs and services - enb awards grants to support english for speakers of other languages (esol) classes for over 1,000 learners in community, organizations across boston. Enb's targeted esol initiatives address unique goals of learners at home, at work, and in the community. They include: esol pathways, esol for parents, english for immigrant entrepreneurs. Enb also partners with employers to design and implement workplace english programs. In the calendar year 2024, enb provided esol classes in emergency assistance shelters under a contract with the state of massachusetts.
$2,965,117 spentof which $1,398,000 as grants$493,049 earned by the program95% of program spendingCapacity building - enb provides system-wide supports to esol programs and teachers, including training and technical assistance on esol methodology, learner assistance, technology integration in the classroom and curriculum development. Enb also recruits, trains and places esol volunteers, and hosts a team of multi-lingual career coaches who provide career workshops and one-on-one coaching directly with students at grassroots esol partner organizations.
$168,450 spent5% of program spendingCommunications and public education - enb expands resources through its flagship statewide english works campaign, calling for a high-quality, public-private esol system that serves immigrants, businesses, and the commonwealth of massachusetts.
$0 spent$20,000 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,133,567.
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 $2.1M to $3.5M (+71%).
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 18% · 2018 30% · 2019 17% · 2020 16% · 2021 13% · 2022 31% · 2023 39% · 2024 18% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Claudia Green
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $352k → $1.2M.
11 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 27% · 2019 48% · 2020 20% · 2021 20% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% — 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
57% of ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
51% of ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.5M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M 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
ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.3M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$898k
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$156k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$100
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 ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC?
- ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,306,323 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,000,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $9,306,323 in grants to ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 59 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