Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ROCA INC
ROCA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 175 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,688,092 to it, the largest being DALIO FAMILY FUND INC ($5,238,675). 105 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 175
- Grants received
- $40M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Roca Inc does
Mission
Roca's mission is to be a relentless force in disrupting incarceration, poverty, and racism by engaging the young adults, police, and systems at the center of urban violence in relationships to address trauma, find hope, and drive change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transformational relationships (intensive case management)- the underlying theory behind roca's intervention model is that relationships change people-that positive change comes about within the context of mutuality, shared experience, and a sense of responsibility, not only to oneself, but to another. Roca engages young people in relationships for the purpose of change. These relationships are called transformational relationships. These are relationships in which a significant amount of time (up to six months) is allotted to simply building trust. They are used to consistently and frequently engage young people in a variety of skill building opportunities over a period of up to two years. These relationships are designed to motivate young people to participate and decide for themselves that they want to change and take concrete actions to change. They are used to support young people when they have setbacks or relapses, to support young people when their families are unable or unwilling, and to protect young people from harm when they are not protecting themselves. Roca knows that when a young person is re-engaged through positive and intensive relationships, he/she can go on to…
$19,564,937 spent79% of program spendingWork projects - through the transitional employment program (tep), participants learn critical work skills needed to become sustainably-employed, economically independent adults. The goal of the transitional employment program is to teach participants about work by having them work. Many of our young people have never had a job and do not know how to show up to work every day or what it means to behave appropriately at work. Roca utilizes subsidized employment to give young people their first exposure to the daily requirements of employment. Our goal is to ensure that, after completing the program, they are prepared for an entry-level position in the open labor market. Low self-esteem serves as another barrier blocking participants from leading healthy and productive lives. By teaching participants how to work they build confidence in their individual skills and abilities. Roca operates supervised work crews that engage in partially-subsidized work projects contracted through municipal public works departments and private companies. The work crews have two major benefits: 1) they teach participants how to work and 2) they benefit the communities they serve by helping to clean up…
$4,394,341 spent$2,572,093 earned by the program18% of program spendingCapacity building - roca's capacity building initiatives are designed to aid the organization as it grows and moves towards goals and objectives outlined in its strategic plan. Capacity building activities include research and evaluation; refinement of the roca intervention model; development and refinement of rocas performance based management system; leadership and staff development and planning for program replication.
$853,965 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,813,243.
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 2017 to 2018, from $16M to $25M (+57%).
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 51% · 2018 35% · 2019 50% · 2020 50% · 2021 54% · 2022 52% · 2023 66% · 2024 70% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of ROCA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Mary Baldwin
Founder and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 87 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $7.1M.
35 of 175 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 ROCA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 175 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
ROCA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
51% 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 ROCA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 14% · 2019 23% · 2020 31% · 2021 24% · 2022 24% · 2023 16% — 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.
How long its funders stay
48% of ROCA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
ROCA INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.
Against its field
ROCA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 144 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 144 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ROCA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $68.8M on record — $20.8M federal, $48.0M state.
- Department of Justice$15.7M
- Department of Labor$5.1M
- MA$41.8M
- MD$3.2M
- CT$3.0M
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 ROCA 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
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Roca Baltimore LLC · disregarded
- Roca Pallin Youth Center Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROCA INC?
- ROCA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 175 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,688,092 to it, the largest being DALIO FAMILY FUND INC ($5,238,675). 105 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROCA INC have?
- IRS filings report 175 organizations giving $39,688,092 in grants to ROCA INC, 105 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCA INC?
- DALIO FAMILY FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,238,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCA 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 175 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing