Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GROW ASSOCIATES INC
GROW ASSOCIATES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,773 to it, the largest being YAWKEY FOUNDATION II ($45,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $127k
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Grow Associates Inc does
Mission
To provide continuing education, occupational training and extended employment opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities who are unable function independently in the competitive employment market.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Focuses on seeking employment opportunities to help individuals achieve personal career goals. For each individual that wants to work in the community, the team develops an inventory of the interests, skills, and experience relevant to his or her job search, employability, job batch, retention, and long-range career development. All individuals placed in community employment receive job coaching.
$1,631,824 spent$622,216 earned by the program31% of program spendingCentered on personal interests, the cbds program has structured group activities that enhance the skills needed to connect people with the community and increase their indepedence. The individuals gain knowledge that allows them to make informed decisions that guides them on the path they desire. Services include community opportunities, volunteering, and skill building activities, money management, healthy living and exercise, meal preparation, and music therapy.
$1,229,511 spent$2,677,285 earned by the program23% of program spendingThe organization provides medically-based services that are designed to increase independent living skills, improve health, and establish new and meaningful friendships through site-based community therapies and learning activities. Services include on-site nursing, therapeudic consultation, training and assistance with activities, and fine and gross motor skill development.
$1,592,256 spent$1,727,375 earned by the program30% of program spendingPart iii, line 4d:expenses: $797,466 including grants of: $0 revenue: $911,854.description: the organization provides daily transportation services for individuals to the organization's facilities. The organization will pick up and drop off individuals to their personal residence.
$797,466 spent$911,854 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,251,057.
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 2021 to 2022, from $5.9M to $12M (+102%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 10% · 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of GROW ASSOCIATES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (16% 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
Sarah Palin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $16k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 GROW 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
GROW ASSOCIATES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 43% · 2022 96% · 2023 72% — 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
60% of GROW ASSOCIATES INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 45% 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
73% of GROW ASSOCIATES 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. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
GROW ASSOCIATES INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GROW ASSOCIATES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $43.5M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$31.9M
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$11.6M
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$205
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 GROW ASSOCIATES 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
86% 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 GROW ASSOCIATES 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 GROW ASSOCIATES INC?
- GROW ASSOCIATES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,773 to it, the largest being YAWKEY FOUNDATION II ($45,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROW ASSOCIATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $126,773 in grants to GROW ASSOCIATES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROW ASSOCIATES INC?
- YAWKEY FOUNDATION II is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROW 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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