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NURTURING MINDS INC

NURTURING MINDS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,286,562 to it, the largest being Woka Foundation ($1,188,598). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.6M
Revenue FY2025
81
Funders on record
$7.3M
Grants received
$10M
Net assets
47/81 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 81%

Against its field

NURTURING MINDS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin43% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($946k) Net assets 100 ($800k)2018 Revenue 155 ($2.1M) Expenses 126 ($1.2M) Net assets 212 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 138 ($1.9M) Expenses 129 ($1.2M) Net assets 288 ($2.3M)2020 Revenue 180 ($2.4M) Expenses 125 ($1.2M) Net assets 436 ($3.5M)2021 Revenue 229 ($3.1M) Expenses 137 ($1.3M) Net assets 737 ($5.9M)2022 Revenue 267 ($3.6M) Expenses 163 ($1.5M) Net assets 853 ($6.8M)2023 Revenue 118 ($1.6M) Expenses 203 ($1.9M) Net assets 859 ($6.9M)2024 Revenue 201 ($2.7M) Expenses 233 ($2.2M) Net assets 991 ($7.9M)2025 Revenue 343 ($4.6M) Expenses 277 ($2.6M) Net assets 1270 ($10M)
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Revenue (343)Expenses (277)Net assets (1270)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 57% · 2018 9% · 2019 4% · 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of NURTURING MINDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$403k
17
$897k
18
$644k
19
$1.2M
20
$1.8M
21
$2.1M
22
$334k
23
$509k
24
$2.0M
25
6.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $166k → $1.3M.

21 of 81 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)38% 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 NURTURING MINDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 81 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

NURTURING MINDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

47% 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 NURTURING MINDS INC.

16%
largest funder
39%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 22% · 2019 15% · 2020 18% · 2021 23% · 2022 24% · 2023 26%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

39% of NURTURING MINDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

NURTURING MINDS INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 20 states in all.

WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
WY
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

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 81 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.

Government funding NURTURING MINDS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $476k on record.

Federal$476k
grants $476kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Agency for International Development$476k

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 NURTURING MINDS INC

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.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 10%Fundraising 7%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

65%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

MA
PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NURTURING MINDS 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds NURTURING MINDS INC?
NURTURING MINDS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,286,562 to it, the largest being Woka Foundation ($1,188,598). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NURTURING MINDS INC have?
IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $7,286,562 in grants to NURTURING MINDS INC, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NURTURING MINDS INC?
Woka Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,188,598 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NURTURING MINDS 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.

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 81funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing