Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF GREATER BOSTON INC
SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF GREATER BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,248 to it, the largest being The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation ($9,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF GREATER BOSTON INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services 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.
- Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trustshared fundersportfolio match
- Point32health Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF GREATER BOSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $2k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF GREATER BOSTON 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
SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF GREATER BOSTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF GREATER BOSTON 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. $148 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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.
- Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trustshared fundersportfolio matchMA · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Point32health Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchMA · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchMA · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 212 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Flatley Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
- Boston Evening Clinic Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Linda Hammett Ory & Andrew Ory Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eastern Cambridge Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maria Torok Foundation #0738518portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jean C Tempel Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Christopher W Schlesinger Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Officeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF GREATER BOSTON 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
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 1 related entity
- The Scandinavian Cultural Center and Library Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF GREATER BOSTON 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.
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 SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF GREATER BOSTON INC?
- SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF GREATER BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,248 to it, the largest being The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation ($9,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF GREATER BOSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $9,248 in grants to SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF GREATER BOSTON INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF GREATER BOSTON INC?
- The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF GREATER BOSTON 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 3funders 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