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FINANCIAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATES INC

FINANCIAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,816 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($20,316). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$195k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$30k
Net assets
$225k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Financial Education Associates Inc does

Mission

The organization's mission is to provide unbiased information to massachusetts low and moderate-income residents organizing their finances to achieve larger financial goals. These goals include home purchases, education, entrepreneurship and retirement.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To provide home buyer and financial education classes (services) to individuals.

    $117,801 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $117,801.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($64k) Expenses 100 ($70k) Net assets -9 ($-6448)2020 Revenue 286 ($183k) Expenses 177 ($125k) Net assets 100 ($69k)2021 Revenue 281 ($180k) Expenses 205 ($144k) Net assets 152 ($105k)2022 Revenue 365 ($233k) Expenses 228 ($161k) Net assets 258 ($178k)2023 Revenue 343 ($220k) Expenses 237 ($167k) Net assets 334 ($230k)2024 Revenue 305 ($195k) Expenses 284 ($200k) Net assets 327 ($225k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (305)Expenses (284)Net assets (327)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $5k to $85k (+1777%).

$5k
$85k
$121k
$199k
$234k
$229k
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

16% of FINANCIAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6k
’19
$58k
’20
$36k
’21
$73k
’22
$53k
’23
−$5k
’24
16
months of
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

Denisha Mcdonald

Executive director

Board chair

Aida Franquiz

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

20222023
Listed55
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 FINANCIAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATES 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

FINANCIAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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

68% 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 FINANCIAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATES INC.

68%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

68% of FINANCIAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATES 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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FINANCIAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

55%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds FINANCIAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATES INC?
FINANCIAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,816 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($20,316). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FINANCIAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATES INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $29,816 in grants to FINANCIAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FINANCIAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATES INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,316 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FINANCIAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATES 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 2019–2024), 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