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MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC

MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,487,782 to it, the largest being POINT32HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($661,188). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$3.5M
Net assets
$2.1M
11/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%
01What it does

What Massachusetts Senior Action Council Inc does

Mission

The massachusetts senior action council, inc.'s (the organization) mission is to provide a collective voice for senior citizens to address quality-of-life concerns in various areas including health care, housing and security.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Msac is a statewide, grassroots, senior-led organization that empowers its members to use their own voices to address key public policy and community issues that affect their health and well-being. As msac's base has grown over the years, thousands of seniors across the commonwealth of massachusetts have participated in public meetings, rallies, government hearings, and direct actions. Today, msac has over 1,300 members and six active chapters located in boston, bristol county, cambridge/somerville, greater springfield, metro north, and north shore communities.

    $645,686 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $645,686.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($479k) Expenses 100 ($431k) Net assets 100 ($508k)2020 Revenue 141 ($673k) Expenses 125 ($539k) Net assets 126 ($643k)2021 Revenue 153 ($730k) Expenses 147 ($635k) Net assets 145 ($738k)2023 Revenue 122 ($585k) Expenses 128 ($550k) Net assets 150 ($760k)2024 Revenue 107 ($513k) Expenses 127 ($546k) Net assets 239 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 329 ($1.6M) Expenses 165 ($712k) Net assets 408 ($2.1M)
201920202021202320242025
Revenue (329)Expenses (165)Net assets (408)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $2.1M (+69%).

$515k
$682k
$766k
$793k
$1.2M
$2.1M
201920202021202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,024 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’19
$134k
’20
$95k
’21
$35k
’23
−$33k
’24
$860k
’25
19
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

Carolyn Villers

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201920202021202320242025
Listed181818212121
Joined·+8+0·+0+0
No longer listed·80·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $212k → $481k.

4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL 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 SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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

61% 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 SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC.

19%
largest funder
50%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 38% · 2019 30% · 2020 34% · 2021 36% · 2022 45% · 2023 26% — 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

36% of MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

99% of MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
DC

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $599k 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

Against its field

MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin55% · top quartile
Months of reserve19.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 7%Fundraising 2%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC?
MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,487,782 to it, the largest being POINT32HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($661,188). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,487,782 in grants to MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC?
POINT32HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $661,188 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 18 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