Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC
MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,080,832 to it, the largest being EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION ($397,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Inc does
Mission
Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the commonwealth for long-term growth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Analysis of the state budget:performed research and analysis, released publications and worked for reform on a wide range of issues affecting the commonwealth of massachusetts including health care, business costs and transportation funding to tax competitiveness, capital investments and state and local finances.
$1,035,881 spent100% of program spendingAnnual tax conference with tax practitioners and government officials to discuss massachusetts state and local taxes.
$44,900 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,035,881.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.6M to $3.0M (−17%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Kristen Lewis
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $515 → $204k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $575k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Boston Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION 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 TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 71% · 2021 50% · 2022 46% · 2023 49% — 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
63% of MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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. 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
96% of MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION 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. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION 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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION 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 TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC?
- MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,080,832 to it, the largest being EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION ($397,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,080,832 in grants to MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC?
- EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $397,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION 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 15 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