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MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY HEROES FUND INC

MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY HEROES FUND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,332 to it, the largest being HIGHLAND STREET CONNECTION AND SUBSIDIARIES ($60,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$26k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$287k
Net assets
$0
10/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund Inc does

Mission

The massachusetts military heroes fund is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to providing support to the families of military personnel with ties to massachusetts who have died as a result of active duty service post 9/11/2001.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Clinical case management:eligible family members can meet with the staff social worker on a regular basis to help them address psychiatric obstacles to benefits and social services. Meetings will focus on coordination of services being provided by all agencies working with the family member, particularly any involved therapists. This program does not take the place of regular mental health counseling. Referrals: the massachusetts military heroes fund can offer referrals to resources for mental health providers, military benefit advocates, legal services and financial/estate planning. Advocacy:the massachusetts military heroes fund staff will assist family members with obtaining social services, insurance payments and other benefits which can be difficult to navigate. Community building events:the massachusetts military heroes fund is proud to offer community support through social events designed to bring families together in an atmosphere of fun and mutual support, as well as practical "family to family" support for the recently bereaved. Basic needs program:the basic needs program of the massachusetts military heroes fund, inc. Offers limited emergency financial assistance for…

    $173,508 spentof which $36,217 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $173,508.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($249k) Expenses 100 ($289k) Net assets 100 ($221k)2018 Revenue 109 ($273k) Expenses 109 ($315k) Net assets 81 ($179k)2019 Revenue 125 ($312k) Expenses 96 ($278k) Net assets 96 ($212k)2020 Revenue 92 ($229k) Expenses 81 ($233k) Net assets 94 ($208k)2021 Revenue 112 ($278k) Expenses 87 ($252k) Net assets 106 ($234k)2022 Revenue 90 ($225k) Expenses 95 ($274k) Net assets 84 ($185k)2023 Revenue 67 ($167k) Expenses 66 ($192k) Net assets 73 ($161k)2024 Revenue 11 ($26k) Expenses 40 ($115k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (11)Expenses (40)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $170k to $0 (−100%).

$235k
$194k
$222k
$215k
$248k
$189k
$170k
$0
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 42% · 2022 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$39k
’17
−$43k
’18
$33k
’19
−$4k
’20
$26k
’21
−$49k
’22
−$24k
’23
−$88k
’24
7.4
months of
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

Diane Nealon

Executive director

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

201720182019202020212022
Listed877777
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·10000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $32k → $8k.

4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 MILITARY HEROES FUND 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 MILITARY HEROES FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

47% 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 MILITARY HEROES FUND INC.

21%
largest funder
52%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 39% · 2019 36% · 2020 40% · 2021 40% · 2022 38% · 2023 65% — 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

44% of MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY HEROES FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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 MILITARY HEROES FUND INC draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.

NY
MA
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY HEROES FUND 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

86%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY HEROES FUND 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 MILITARY HEROES FUND INC?
MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY HEROES FUND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,332 to it, the largest being HIGHLAND STREET CONNECTION AND SUBSIDIARIES ($60,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY HEROES FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $287,332 in grants to MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY HEROES FUND INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY HEROES FUND INC?
HIGHLAND STREET CONNECTION AND SUBSIDIARIES is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY HEROES FUND 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 16 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