Massachusetts · Nonprofit
INVERSANT INC
INVERSANT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,653,452 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($1,662,902). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $499k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $49k
What Inversant Inc does
Mission
Inversant's mission is to ensure that through parental engagement every low-to-moderate income family has the resources and understanding they need to achieve their goals for higher education.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
Inversant is a nonprofit organization founded to motivate low-income families to seek higher education for their children.the organization believes that higher education is attainable for all, regardless of income, and that family engagement is crucial to students' educational achievement. Working with community partners, the organization provides knowledge, resources, connections, and financial incentives that empower parents to propel their children into higher education. The organization's objective is to bring underserved parents into the equation, teaching them what they need to know so they can support their children's higher education ambitions.the organization approaches its work along two tracks. First, the organization presents college access training to low-income families, offering them financial and other incentives to attend the workshops and to save toward higher education. Second, the organization works toward a systemic change in the public scholarship structure so that it is used to motivate parents to engage with their children's education and encourage them to invest their own time and effort toward educational achievement. The organization sees both tracks as…
$434,185 spentof which $58,196 as grants$14,033 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $434,185.
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 2019 to 2020, from $219k to $1.7M (+683%).
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: 2021 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of INVERSANT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Charles Desmond
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $200k → $121k.
5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Hildreth Stewart Charitable Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money INVERSANT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of INVERSANT 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
INVERSANT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 INVERSANT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 77% · 2019 74% · 2020 29% · 2021 54% · 2022 58% · 2023 79% — 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
32% of INVERSANT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
74% of INVERSANT 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 $684k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
INVERSANT INC is better cushioned than half of the 5,081 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,081 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Organizations like INVERSANT 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
41% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
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 INVERSANT 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 INVERSANT INC?
- INVERSANT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,653,452 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($1,662,902). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INVERSANT INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,653,452 in grants to INVERSANT INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INVERSANT INC?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,662,902 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INVERSANT 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 27 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