Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NOUS FOUNDATION INC
NOUS FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $995,377 to it, the largest being BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ($985,822). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $637k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $995k
- Net assets
- $597k
What Nous Foundation Inc does
Mission
Promote awareness of end of life issues and treatment options for patients and their families
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
Promote awareness of end of life issues and treatment options for patients and their families.
$777,071 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 $1.5M to $1.1M (−30%).
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
Aretha Delight Davis
Executive director/clerk
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $256k.
From the IRS filings of NOUS 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
NOUS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 NOUS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
99% of NOUS 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. 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
NOUS FOUNDATION INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NOUS 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NOUS 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 NOUS FOUNDATION INC?
- NOUS FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $995,377 to it, the largest being BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ($985,822). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NOUS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $995,377 in grants to NOUS FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NOUS FOUNDATION INC?
- BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $985,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NOUS 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 2 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