Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC
MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,643,263 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,175,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Massachusetts Alliance for Early College Inc does
Mission
The massachusetts alliance for early college (ma4ec) is a cross-sector coalition focused on significantly increasing the number of students with access to high-quality early college in massachusetts to promote college and career success and close equity gaps.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Collective impact: work to ensure that a large, energized coalition of cross-sector partners is meaningfully activated behind early college.
$669,626 spent40% of program spendingCapacity building: work to ensure that local and state-level teams are sufficiently sized, expertly skilled, highly connected, and collectively working from a high-bar for quality
$677,681 spent40% of program spendingPolicy conditions: work to ensure that ec is funded sufficiently, sustainably, and predictably; associated policy supports bridging the k12 and higher education silos and reduces barriers to efficient and effective programs
$195,182 spent12% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$135,771 spentof which $80,960 as grants8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,678,260.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $1.3M to $3.1M (+140%).
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.
95% of MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $50k → $2.8M.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE 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
MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
34% 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 MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 30% · 2023 27% — 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.
Where its funders are
67% of MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE 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. $1.4M 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
MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE 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
94% 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 MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE 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 MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC?
- MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,643,263 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,175,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $5,643,263 in grants to MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), 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