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Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES INC (Massachusetts) is funded by 9 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $22,259,758 in grants to it, the largest being MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ($15,083,409). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,648 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,648 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2018
$688k from 4 funders in 2024, up from $19M and 4 in 2018.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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: 2018 81% · 2019 87% · 2020 93% · 2021 82% · 2022 80% · 2023 99% · 2024 68% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
50% of MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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.
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES INC is locally rooted: 99% of its grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 9 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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
89% of spending goes to programs.
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Part of a family of 16 related entities
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), and the filings of 9funders 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. view filing