Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC
SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,292,312 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($1,740,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Schumacher Center for a New Economics Inc does
Mission
Education - to educate the public about an economics that supports both people and the planet.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Local currency project - the schumacher center for a new economics provided research assistance, development, and administrative oversight for berkshares, a local currency designed to educate citizens about the importance of vibrant, self-sufficient, regional economies. The center created educational material for print and online; developed systems for integrating with bank operations; hosted media, and representatives of communities in other regions who are studying the program. The berkshares program serves 10,000 persons regionally and through media and internet reaches over 50,000 persons nationally and internationally. In addition, the schumacher center supported community economics in kenya to research and further develop currency systems for unbanked marginal communities throughout its region. Through community inclusion currencies people have a way to exchange goods and services and incubate projects and businesses, without relying on scarce national currency and volatile markets.
$509,126 spent60% of program spendingThe reinventing the commons program conducts research into the commons as a paradigm of economic and social change, and shares it with scholars, policy experts and the public. In 2023 this work was presented in many forms. The program director made in-person keynote talks at large conferences and public events (7) and informal presentations to smaller audiences (5). The program director also hosted his own podcast show (12 episodes)and online video lecture series (6 talks). He published essays in print and web magazines(3), participated in online interviews and webinars hosted by educational institutions and nonprofit organizations (12), offered public endorsements for noteworthy books (3), and gave (no-cost)consultations to activists and organizations (80+). More than 500 copies of a book published by the program were sold or distributed. The program's monthly podcast had more than 15,000 downloads and live-streams, and its eight websites (for commons-related books and topics)had a combined visitorship of more than 50,000 people.
$150,505 spent18% of program spendingThe community land trust program is providing information about the role of land and natural resources in a new economic system. Working with our local berkshire community land trust, the schumacher center helped found and promote farmsteads for farmers as a way to support secure access to farmland and housing for the many small farmers providing food for the region. A 79 acre site is under contract to purchase, hold, and lease to a berkshire mobile chicken farmer supplying eggs to local markets and food pantries. Stories about the farmsteads for farmers appeared in local and regional print,online,radio and tv media reaching over 30,000 people. Documents for the farmsteads for farmers modeled on those of indian line farm are on the schumacher center's website where they are accessed by groups representing farmers facing similar land insecurity issues.
$57,627 spent7% of program spendingLibrary operations - the schumacher center's unique collection of books and papers, including fritz schumacher's personal books and papers and those of other decentralist authors and activists are all catalogued and that catalogue is searchable online. Reseachers searched the online catalogue and a number of researchers came in person to access the library and archives. In light of the climate and inequality crises, researchers are revisiting the contributions of thinkers in the period of 1950-1980s on contemporary social activism and bioregional economics. The schumacher center's library has focused on collections from this period, providing an important resource for activists and researchers. New collections received in 2023 include the books and papers of kirkpatrick sale, noted advocate of bioregionalism. And the curated selections of john mcclaughry's decentralism file, featuring 115+ rare and overlooked contributions to this canon through history, was published to our website for the first time. . Lectures & educational events - the schumacher center convened three in- person lectures in 2023. The forty-third annual e.f. Schumacher lecture was a joint presentation by alex…
$134,244 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $851,502.
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 2023 to 2024, from $828k to $1.8M (+114%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $68k → $816k.
8 of 25 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 SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 94% · 2019 72% · 2020 44% · 2021 44% · 2022 75% · 2023 47% — 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
27% of SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $934k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 175 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 175 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC?
- SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,292,312 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($1,740,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $3,292,312 in grants to SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,740,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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