Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC
MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,891,280 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($2,182,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education Inc does
Mission
The massachusetts business alliance for education (mbae) is committed to excellence, opportunity and innovation in our public education system to prepare all students to engage successfully in a global economy and society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education reform - for over 30 years, mbae has worked to improve the commonwealth's public schools on behalf of employers committed to ensuring all students graduate high school prepared for success in college, career and citizenship. Mbae is the only business group with a sole focus on education. Our emphasis is on systemic change that is sustainable and benefits all students. Among our current objectives are ensuring equitable and effective distribution and use of funding for education and making sure new funding is used to improve student learning and close achievement gaps.
$174,730 spent26% of program spendingCollege/career readiness - mbae is working to ensure all students graduate from high school ready for success. We launched and lead the student pathways to success coalition, a cross-sector group of organizations committed to educational equity that is working to build stronger connections between what students are learning and the opportunities that await them when they graduate from high school. The coalition promotes economic opportunity and equity by working to expand access to structured pathways to college and career that are anchored in personalized and ongoing career and college counseling that include opportunities for students to earn college credit, participate in work-based learning, and attain industry-recognized credentials.
$225,116 spent33% of program spendingAffiliate network & coalition - mbae's work is in partnership with employers and business groups across the state. Three of the state's most influential statewide employer oraganizations, associated industries of massachusetts, the massachusetts business roundtable, and the massachusetts taxpayers foundationn, have seats on our board. Mbae has also built a substantial business coalition, the mbae affiliate network, to help us present a unified business voice on education. The network currently includes 42 chambers of commerce and industry associations collectively representing more than 35,000 employers across the state. These groups share our commitment to ensuring every student gets the education they need to be successful.
$275,846 spent41% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $675,692.
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 2021 to 2022, from $774k to $2.0M (+154%).
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 6% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION 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. 3 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
Edward M Lambert Jr
Executive director
Board chair
William Walczak
Chairman/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $30k → $760k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $504k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Boston Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION 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 BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2019 38% · 2020 55% · 2021 54% · 2022 66% · 2023 62% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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
MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION 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 BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION 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
41%
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 BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION 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 BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC?
- MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,891,280 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($2,182,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $3,891,280 in grants to MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,182,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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