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Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts) is funded by 915 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $2,131,108,703 in grants to it, the largest being The Lord Foundation of Massachusetts Inc ($309,439,000). 564 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is better cushioned than half of the 651 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 651 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2023
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
22% of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
$4.5M from 40 funders in 2025, up from $65M and 137 in 2017.
119 of 915 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Institute of Technology’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 915 funders by total. Association, not causation.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 11% · 2019 12% · 2020 15% · 2021 45% · 2022 26% · 2023 11% · 2024 10% · 2025 27% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
41% of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 Institute of Technology draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 46 states in all.
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 915 funders put you well-backed 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.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.8B on record — $14.7B federal, $44.6M state.
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
78% of spending goes to programs.
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 13 states
Part of a family of 161 related entities
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 915funders 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