Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION
MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,357 to it, the largest being THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ($188,792). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $252k
- Net assets
- $337k
What Mesoamerican Development Institute Corporation does
Mission
Applied research for rural productive applications
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Outreach to coffee producers, coffee producing communities, mayors and municipalities, and coffee companies regarding innovation in carbon-neutral production and processing through the Yoro Biological Corridor Initiative in Honduras. Participation in tours and workshops with delegations including the US Forest Service, US Agency for International Development, University of Massachusetts and organizations seeking to structure financing to scale up innovation throughout the Corridor.
$28,348 spentof which $28,348 as grants40% of program spendingTraining of local youth in Honduras on coffee & climate change, how to measure trees and soils to determine carbon content, and GIS mapping methods applied to coffee farms.
$28,348 spentof which $28,348 as grants40% of program spendingInstitutional support for coffee producing organization and field laboratory for training to scale up Integrated Open Canopy coffee farming that restores and conserves forest habitat on coffee farms.
$14,180 spentof which $1,799 as grants20% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $70,876.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $274k to $362k (+32%).
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.
33% of MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $31k → $142k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION’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
MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 95% · 2019 85% · 2020 72% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,933 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,933 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $110k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$110k
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.
Organizations like MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION: 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 MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION?
- MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,357 to it, the largest being THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ($188,792). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $252,357 in grants to MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION?
- THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $188,792 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MESOAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CORPORATION 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 4 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