Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE INC
MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,823,600 to it, the largest being FISCAL PARTNERS INC ($1,756,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $280k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $98k
What Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance Inc does
Mission
Massachusetts fiscal alliance is a non-partisan, non-profit 501c(4) organization committed to improving the quality of life in massachusetts by advocating for fiscal responsibility and furthering government transparency.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The massachusetts fiscal alliance executes several facets of its program in pursuit of its mission, through which it seeks to educate, inform, and engage residents of massachusetts on key issues relating to its goals of increasing fiscal responsibility, transparency, and accountability in state government, and expanding economic opportunity for the people of our commonwealth.massachusetts fiscal alliance regularly maintains, updates, and provides informative and educational content across its website (massfiscal.org), a large email list with thousands of subscribers, and its social media platforms, including facebook, tiktok, x (twitter), instagram, youtube, and linkedin. Content for these platforms is generally geared toward educating residents about the positions and actions of state legislators and government officials as they relate to our mission of promoting responsibility, transparency, and accountability in state government, and increasing economic opportunity for the people of our commonwealth.the maintenance, moderation, and content generation for these platforms require significant commitments of staff time and effort. This work also includes advertising expenditures…
$171,513 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $171,513.
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 2018 to 2019, from $37k to $103k (+181%).
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.
100% of MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Carl Copeland
Interim executive director
Board chair
Ann Sullivan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $460k → $136k.
From the IRS filings of MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE 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 FISCAL ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
100% 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 FISCAL ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 82% · 2021 95% · 2022 96% · 2023 89% — 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
96% of MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE 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. 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 FISCAL ALLIANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE 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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE 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 FISCAL ALLIANCE INC?
- MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,823,600 to it, the largest being FISCAL PARTNERS INC ($1,756,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,823,600 in grants to MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE INC?
- FISCAL PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,756,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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