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Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MELMARK NEW ENGLAND INC (Massachusetts) is funded by 29 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $1,457,735 in grants to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($554,225). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
0% of MELMARK NEW ENGLAND INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (50% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
$1k from 1 funders in 2025, up from $10k and 1 in 2017.
4 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 MELMARK NEW ENGLAND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
MELMARK NEW ENGLAND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 68%; 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 43% · 2019 47% · 2020 39% · 2021 46% · 2022 47% · 2023 51% · 2024 73% · 2025 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
20% of MELMARK NEW ENGLAND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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.
MELMARK NEW ENGLAND INC is locally rooted: 74% of its grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
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 29 funders put you under-funded 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. $73.0M on record.
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.
0% of spending goes to programs.
Operates in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 29funders 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