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MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC

MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,293,263 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,175,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.3M
Revenue FY2025
14
Funders on record
$5.3M
Grants received
$3.8M
Net assets
9/14 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($325k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 169 ($2.7M) Expenses 268 ($872k) Net assets 243 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 112 ($1.8M) Expenses 497 ($1.6M) Net assets 257 ($3.3M)2025 Revenue 144 ($2.3M) Expenses 548 ($1.8M) Net assets 297 ($3.8M)
2022202320242025
Revenue (144)Expenses (548)Net assets (297)Peer revenue range

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.3M
22
$1.8M
23
$171k
24
$508k
25
0.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)27% 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 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

36% 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.

22%
largest funder
61%
top three
~7
effective funders

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

59% of MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

WA
MA
IN
MD

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

21
22
23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 5%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

MA

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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC?
MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,293,263 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,175,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $5,293,263 in grants to MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC, 9 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 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing