Massachusetts · Nonprofit
POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC
POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $376,199 to it, the largest being READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION ($240,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $376k
- Net assets
- $229k
What Polus Center for Social and Economic Development Inc does
Mission
The polus center for social and economic development, inc. Strives to create opportunities for persons with disabilities, especially people who are blind or visually impaired, and members of other vulnerable groups to become valued citizens within their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Training and consulting - working with grassroots organizations to help them plan and implement economic, social intergration, and community based rehabilitation projects. Active participation in these planning sessions offers a unique action learning opportunity for participants to learn about victim assistance and developing a person-centered human service model. In addition, the organization provides leadership training, organization development, and small business capacity building to both non-profit and for-profit organizations throughout the u.s. The organization also advocates for job development for people with disabilities so that they might find jobs based on their skills and interests.
$1,306,406 spent100% of program spendingThe international program - coordinate humanitarian efforts aimed at addressing the long-term needs of people with disabilities, particulararly those individuals who lost limbs due to acts of war, landmines and diseases. The organization has established victim assistance programs, including prosthetic clinics and distribution, job training and economic development, leadership training, and accessibility. The polus center actively worked on victim assistance efforts in colombia, jordan, iraq, and the democratic republic of the congo.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,306,406.
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 2017 to 2018, from $750k to $602k (−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: 2017 96% · 2018 81% · 2019 40% · 2020 45% · 2021 55% · 2022 45% · 2023 49% · 2024 41% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $32k → $4k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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
POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 80%; 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 POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 63% · 2019 83% · 2020 82% · 2021 81% · 2022 67% · 2023 71% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC draws 72% 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. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.5M on record.
- Department of State$5.5M
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 POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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
80% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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 POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC?
- POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $376,199 to it, the largest being READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION ($240,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $376,199 in grants to POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC?
- READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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 12 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