Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Qlab Accelerator Inc
Qlab Accelerator Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being FROM THE SOURCE FOUNDATION ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $354k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $351k
What Qlab Accelerator Inc does
Mission
In short: turning the best technical talent at Harvard and MIT into defense tech founders, with real government customers from day one.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
National Security Innovation Accelerator: Operated a summer accelerator program for dual-use defense technology startups founded by Harvard and MIT students. Cohort 1 (2024): 14 teams; 9 raised pre-seed rounds; 2 closed seed funding ($1M-$5M); 2 accepted to Y Combinator; 2 received Palantir fellowships; 8 companies secured government contracts (SBIRs, CRADAs, IDIQs) across DARPA, SOCOM, JSOC, DLA, NGA, and NSA. Cohort 2 (2025): expanded to 20 teams with new coverage in shipbuilding, maritime autonomy, and advanced manufacturing. Provided over $300K in non-dilutive funding to participating teams.
Speaker Series & Community Programming: Hosted 20+ speaker sessions and workshops for student founders and the broader Harvard-MIT national security community. Featured speakers included Steve Blank, Brandon Tseng (Shield AI), Chris Miller (author of Chip War), Justin Fanelli (CTO of the Navy), Heidi Shyu, Eric Evans (MIT Lincoln Lab), and leaders from Palantir, Anthropic, HawkEye 360, Shield Capital, Founder Collective, Wilson Sonsini, SpaceWERX, and USSOCOM. Built a practitioner-mentor network pairing student teams with senior directors from DoD and the intelligence community.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Board chair
Mark Pascale
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Qlab Accelerator 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Qlab Accelerator Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
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
Qlab Accelerator Inc receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Qlab Accelerator 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 Qlab Accelerator Inc?
- Qlab Accelerator Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being FROM THE SOURCE FOUNDATION ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Qlab Accelerator Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $40,000 in grants to Qlab Accelerator Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Qlab Accelerator Inc?
- FROM THE SOURCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Qlab Accelerator 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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