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INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC

INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $977,567 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($550,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$227k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$978k
Net assets
$173k
8/16 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Inner Compass Initiative Inc does

Mission

Furthering education, information, resources, advocacy, support, community, & research relating to critical approaches to mental health care, alternatives to the mental health system, recovery from trauma & pharmaceutical drugs, holistic health & community devt/interconnectedness

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $249,833 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $249,833.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($126k) Expenses 100 ($178k) Net assets 100 ($92k)2018 Revenue 142 ($179k) Expenses 67 ($119k) Net assets 165 ($152k)2019 Revenue 49 ($62k) Expenses 64 ($114k) Net assets 108 ($100k)2020 Revenue 356 ($448k) Expenses 77 ($138k) Net assets 444 ($410k)2021 Revenue 136 ($171k) Expenses 99 ($176k) Net assets 438 ($405k)2022 Revenue 123 ($155k) Expenses 117 ($208k) Net assets 381 ($352k)2023 Revenue 152 ($191k) Expenses 143 ($254k) Net assets 312 ($288k)2024 Revenue 181 ($227k) Expenses 192 ($342k) Net assets 187 ($173k)
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Revenue (181)Expenses (192)Net assets (187)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 $107k to $422k (+296%).

$99k
$159k
$107k
$422k
$418k
$366k
$302k
$174k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$53k
’17
$60k
’18
−$52k
’19
$310k
’20
−$5k
’21
−$53k
’22
−$64k
’23
−$115k
’24
5.9
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.

20202024
Listed25
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $150k → $125k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE 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

INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

83% 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 INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC.

56%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 59% · 2020 79% · 2021 96% · 2022 86% · 2023 80% — 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.

How long its funders stay

30% of INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

83% of INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE 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 $166k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 10 states.

WA
IL
MI
MA
PA
NJ
CT
MO
DE
FL

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $811k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC has grown faster than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−51% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

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

Organizations like INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE 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

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

73%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

MA
CT

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Questions and answers

Who funds INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC?
INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $977,567 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($550,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $977,567 in grants to INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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