Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MAS BOSTON SOCIETY INC
MAS BOSTON SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $489,168 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($269,728). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2018
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $489k
- Net assets
- $814k
What Mas Boston Society Inc does
Mission
Mas boston society, inc. (mas boston) is a community-based organization focused on developing leaders who have the spiritual and organizational capacity to move people to strive for god consciousness, liberty, and justice, and to convey islam with utmost clarity. We are one of 50 chapters nationwide that are part of a larger national organization - the muslim american society (mas) - committed to the same mission. Mas boston provides vision and broad areas of focus for our local chapter and serves as a resource for educational materials, workshops, and speakers.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
Mas boston mainly provided programs through the islamic society of boston cultural center (isbcc). On occasion, mas boston offers programs at other greater boston institutions, community centers, and mosques. During 2018, mas boston had three areas of focus: spiritual development and education: the isbcc offers its congregants the five daily prayers, the weekly congregational sermon/prayer (khutbah) on fridays attended by 1500+ worshippers, the friday night spiritual lessons (halaqas), islamic knowledge workshops, seasonal religious holidays programming (ramadan, eid ul-fitr, and eid ul-adha), one-on-one spiritual counseling, a vibrant religious youth program (deen14), islam 101 classes for people interested in learning islam and/or newly converted muslims, tours for people of other faiths and students of all ages, and classes on reading and memorizing the quran on saturdays and sundays through the mas quran institute. Through the boston islamic seminary program (bis), mas boston conducted educational programs, classes, seminars and certificate programs to provide authentic islamic education to all people.building a strong community: mas boston offers two strong identity and…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.2M to $910k (−26%).
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.
73% of MAS BOSTON SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $191k → $10k.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 MAS BOSTON SOCIETY 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
MAS BOSTON SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MAS BOSTON SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 46% · 2019 88% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of MAS BOSTON SOCIETY 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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $477k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MAS BOSTON SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,333 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,333 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2018
Organizations like MAS BOSTON SOCIETY 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
95%
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 MAS BOSTON SOCIETY 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 MAS BOSTON SOCIETY INC?
- MAS BOSTON SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $489,168 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($269,728). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAS BOSTON SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $489,168 in grants to MAS BOSTON SOCIETY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAS BOSTON SOCIETY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $269,728 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAS BOSTON SOCIETY 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 6 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