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FRESH START WELLNESS CENTER INC

FRESH START WELLNESS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,500 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$252k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$74k
Net assets
$166k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%
01What it does

What Fresh Start Wellness Center Inc does

Mission

Fresh start wellness center implements and creates mental health programs for the criminal justice and educational system through four pillars self care life skills comunity,involvement intervention and prevention

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Mentor youth children

    $256,920 spent$251,684 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $256,920.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($62k) Expenses 100 ($55k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2021 Revenue 88 ($54k) Expenses 101 ($56k) Net assets -10 ($-686)2022 Revenue 213 ($131k) Expenses 229 ($126k) Net assets 61 ($4k)2023 Revenue 616 ($379k) Expenses 389 ($214k) Net assets 2590 ($171k)2024 Revenue 409 ($252k) Expenses 467 ($257k) Net assets 2510 ($166k)
20182021202220232024
Revenue (409)Expenses (467)Net assets (2510)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 2022 to 2023, from $6k to $171k (+2928%).

$7k
$904
$6k
$171k
$166k
20182021202220232024
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.

2018
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 57% · 2024 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of FRESH START WELLNESS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’18
−$2k
’21
$5k
’22
$165k
’23
−$5k
’24
7.7
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

Derrick Kiser

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20232024
Listed23
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $5k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 FRESH START WELLNESS CENTER 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

FRESH START WELLNESS CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

82%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of FRESH START WELLNESS CENTER INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

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

’19
’20
’21
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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

FRESH START WELLNESS CENTER INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve7.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding FRESH START WELLNESS CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $229k on record.

State$229k
23
24
25
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$187k
  • (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$43k

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 FRESH START WELLNESS CENTER 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

2
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRESH START WELLNESS CENTER INC?
FRESH START WELLNESS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,500 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRESH START WELLNESS CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $73,500 in grants to FRESH START WELLNESS CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRESH START WELLNESS CENTER INC?
BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRESH START WELLNESS CENTER 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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