Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,290,143 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,065,717). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts Inc does
Mission
The mission of the family nurturing center is to work with others to build nurturing communities where children are cherished, families are supported and healthy development is promoted by all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nurturing parenting programs:nurturing parenting programs are 15-session, research-validated, interactive parent support and education programs that involve the whole family; nurturing fathers' programs engage fathers independently over the course of 12 sessions. These programs build nurturing skills through group lessons and activities from a nationally recognized curriculum emphasizing empathy, empowerment, positive self-worth, and the use of dignified discipline for all family members. With public and private funding, fnc coordinates a variety of programs for families and fathers, in multiple contexts and languages, including inside houses of correction for incarcerated parents. Fnc offers a full continuum of services in dorchester, allston-brighton, and hyde park: welcome baby home visits; parent/baby and parent/child playgroups; parentchild+ program; and boston family engagement network.
$3,007,338 spentof which $279,141 as grants$88,010 earned by the program82% of program spendingCoalition and community building:fnc's coalition and community building department seeks to address the social determinants of health that play a critical role in a child achieving their full potential. Through this work, fnc engaged families in building the communities they envision for themselves and their children. Fnc has three unique initiatives funded by the massachusetts department of children and families ("dcf") that are designed to engage the community in improving the health and well-being of neighborhood families: dorchester cares community coalition; chelsea community connections; patch; community healing response network.
$356,966 spent$2,000 earned by the program10% of program spendingTraining and technical assistance:fnc is designated by the dcf as the statewide training and technical assistance provider for the nurturing parenting and nurturing fathers' programs in massachusetts. Fnc staff enrolled over 900 professionals across the commonwealth in trainings related to nurturing program development and facilitation. These trainees participated in our three-day nurturing philosophy training, as well as trainings designed to address specific practice issues. Fnc receives significant contract funding from the dcf to support nurturing program facilitator training for social workers in its area offices across massachusetts. Fnc staff and program graduates also partner actively with dcf to promote fatherhood engagement statewide. In addition, fnc co-hosts a series of conferences and state-wide meetings for the parenting education community - most notably, the new england fathering conference and the nurturing network meeting.
$298,913 spent$3,960 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,663,217.
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 $6.4M to $9.2M (+45%).
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 52% · 2018 41% · 2019 41% · 2020 57% · 2021 58% · 2022 58% · 2023 55% · 2024 32% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Emma Tobin
Executive director
Board chair
Taran T Grigsby
President/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $1.7M.
13 of 72 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 FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
72% 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 FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 25% · 2019 22% · 2020 24% · 2021 11% · 2022 19% · 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
51% of FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
92% of FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS 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. $4.6M 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
FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- Educ & Training For Employees$2k
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 FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS 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
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Family Nurturing Support Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS 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 FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC?
- FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,290,143 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,065,717). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $13,290,143 in grants to FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,065,717 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS 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 72 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