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FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC

FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,184,394 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($1,220,351). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.6M
Revenue FY2022
23
Funders on record
$3.2M
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
12/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 89%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 86 ($1.3M) Expenses 79 ($1.1M) Net assets 117 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 115 ($1.7M) Expenses 111 ($1.5M) Net assets 133 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 82 ($1.2M) Expenses 109 ($1.5M) Net assets 110 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 48 ($726k) Expenses 72 ($1.0M) Net assets 86 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 104 ($1.6M) Expenses 75 ($1.0M) Net assets 131 ($1.5M)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (104)Expenses (75)Net assets (131)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 15% · 2019 17% · 2020 25% · 2021 3% · 2022 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

$122k
17
$197k
18
$197k
19
$282k
20
$282k
21
$536k
22
16
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $190k.

2 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)38% 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 FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 23 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

FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

94% 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 FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC.

38%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 43% · 2019 49% · 2020 42% · 2021 49% · 2022 43% · 2023 79%broadly stable.

“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

59% of FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

97% of FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
KY
VA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC?
FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,184,394 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($1,220,351). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,184,394 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC?
Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,220,351 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 23funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing