Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON
FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,494 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($308,014). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $0
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $373k
- Net assets
- $0
What Family Service Association of Greater Boston does
Mission
As a result of an affidavit of compliance of plaintiff (family services association of greater boston), and the affidavit of receipt of defendants and trustee as authorized by an interlocutory order of the honorable supreme judicial court on june 9, 2021, it was ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the defendants as named as successors to any funds, property, assets or interest of plaintiff (family services association of greater boston), to be used for the purposes specified in the court's interlocutory order (for the defendants), and that plaintiff, Family Service Association of Greater Boston, was hereby dissolved, date november 23, 2021.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Final program (teen living program/family independence) was terminated on 6/30/20. Fsgb has no programs and therefore no revenue for such during fy 2021.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
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 $13M to $0 (−100%).
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 49% · 2018 82% · 2019 83% · 2020 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 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 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $315k → $13k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON’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
FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2019 73% · 2020 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
87% of FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON
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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON: 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 SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON?
- FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,494 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($308,014). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $373,494 in grants to FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON?
- United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc is the largest funder on record, with $308,014 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 3 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