Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,176,496 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($470,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Martin Luther King Jr Family Services Inc does
Mission
Martin luther king jr. Family services leads with hope and drives action, shaping futures and igniting transformation across cultures and generations. Through innovative programs in educational enrichment, public health, youth leadership, food access and wellness, family support, and economic opportunity, we empower individuals, youth and families to overcome barriers, rise and lead purposeful, liberated lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mlkfs provides comprehensive year-round services to school age children from low and moderate income familiesin the greater springfield area. Services offered include: academic support, enrichment and homework assistance, experiential learning, life skills development, social and character development, opportunities for parental involvement,and school based extended day for k-5th graders.we also offer college courses, college prep classes culminating in a week long multi college tour. Our organization provides food assistance through our weekly emergency food pantry, family stabilization and support to at risk families.
$1,414,495 spent$352,105 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,414,495.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.8M to $2.3M (+25%).
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: 2017 43% · 2018 43% · 2019 53% · 2020 50% · 2021 43% · 2022 47% · 2023 46% · 2024 33% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Shannon Rudder
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $109k → $387k.
3 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES 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
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 90% · 2019 39% · 2020 51% · 2021 42% · 2022 39% · 2023 52% — 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 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
84% of MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES 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. $947k 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
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC?
- MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,176,496 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($470,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,176,496 in grants to MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS is the largest funder on record, with $470,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES 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 22 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