Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR THE BOOK INC
MASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR THE BOOK INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,395 to it, the largest being NEWS PAPER FOUNDATION ($2,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $445k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $272k
What Massachusetts Center for the Book Inc does
Mission
The massachusetts center for the book, chartered as the commonwealth affiliate of the center for the book in the library of congress, is a public-private partnership charged with developing, supporting, and promoting cultural programming that will advance the cause of books and reading and enhance the outreach potential of massachusetts libraries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The massachusetts center for the book launched the "mass kids lit fest" program during the year, as described in line 4b of part iii.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Annual massachusetts book awards - promotes books by massachusetts writers in libraries and through author programs. Posters, bookmarks, tent cards distributed for reading promotion displays. Authors introduced to librarians at annual conference to legislators at a state house event. Statewide benefit. Over 450 books considered.
$33,911 spent11% of program spendingMass kids lit fest, timed to children's book week, is produced in partnership with schools, community groups, and libraries across hampshire, hamden, and franklin counties. The inaugural festival reached over 450 students and families through school visits, author workshops, and hands-on activities.
$10,315 spent3% of program spendingAnnual letters about literature, statewide student reading/writing program in schools and libraries throughout the commonwealth. 1600 student participants.
$6,352 spent2% of program spendingOther program initiatives include the reading challenge,a reading promotion program which saw participation from over 2500 massachusetts residents, across 275 municipalities; other literacy promotion activities and programming, literacy placemaking, including the development of maps, trails, and archives, to increase cultural tourism as well as to leverage library resources in community redvelopment efforts; and national and regional collaborations to enhance cultural activity in massachusetts libraries.
$269,727 spent84% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $320,305.
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 $162k to $290k (+79%).
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 94% · 2018 90% · 2019 94% · 2020 93% · 2021 96% · 2022 97% · 2023 99% · 2024 98% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR THE BOOK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Courtney Andree
Executive director
Board chair
Krista Mcleod
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7 → $53.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 CENTER FOR THE BOOK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 funders by total. 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 CENTER FOR THE BOOK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
MASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR THE BOOK INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 CENTER FOR THE BOOK INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CENTER FOR THE BOOK 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 CENTER FOR THE BOOK INC?
- MASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR THE BOOK INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,395 to it, the largest being NEWS PAPER FOUNDATION ($2,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR THE BOOK INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,395 in grants to MASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR THE BOOK INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR THE BOOK INC?
- NEWS PAPER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR THE BOOK 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 3 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