Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC
NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,112,640 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($936,393). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $600k
What Newton Community Service Centers Inc does
Mission
Family access empowers and strengthens families and the community by providing programs that nurture child development, prevent trauma, promote effective parenting skills, and support working parents. For more than 117 years, family access has served thousands of families from racially, economically, and culturally diverse backgrounds from middlesex and norfolk counties in massachusetts. Our three integrated programs are based on decades of research in neuroscience and early child development pointing to the importance of early formative experiences and the power of engaged parents to raise strong, resilient children. Focusing our services on low-income and immigrant families with young children and at-risk youth, we help program participants improve their parenting, and we help children develop the social, emotional, and intellectual skills needed for success in school and life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Child and family services:early education and care - care for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.counseling and consultation - comprehensive support services for teens and young adults during pregnancy and the early years of child rearing including counseling, parenting education, support groups, and a transitional living program.early literacy services is committed to preparing low-income, low-literacy families who do not have access to educational opportunities to support their child's intellectual as well as emotional and social development through programs designed to fit the learning style and individual needs of the parent and the family.
$4,319,016 spent$2,714,520 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,319,016.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $1.8M (−20%).
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: 2018 10% · 2019 14% · 2020 18% · 2021 38% · 2022 31% · 2023 21% · 2024 21% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Maureen A Lister
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $103k → $349k.
7 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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
NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
53% 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 NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 57% · 2019 33% · 2020 80% · 2021 22% · 2022 17% · 2023 32% — 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
67% of NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
81% of NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS 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. $688k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.1M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$2.8M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$2.2M
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 NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC?
- NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,112,640 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($936,393). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $3,112,640 in grants to NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC?
- United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc is the largest funder on record, with $936,393 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 40 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