Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SOCIEDAD LATINA INC
SOCIEDAD LATINA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,725,798 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($999,485). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Sociedad Latina Inc does
Mission
Sociedad latina works in partnership with youth and families to create the next generation of latine leaders who are confident, competent, self-sustaining and proud of their cultural heritage. To accomplish this mission, we have developed an innovative, multi-service model called pathways to success, which engages youth over the long-term (ages 11-21) to build skills in: education, workforce development, civic engagement, and arts & culture. These four content areas are infused into each program to ensure that all youth who engage with sociedad latina have the broad skill sets necessary for success in the 21st century. We implement an asset-based approach to youth development, supporting youth to develop positive cultural identities which serve as protective factors, promote resiliency, and continue latine cultural traditions in our community. Our success relies on deep partnerships with families and cross-sector partners across boston.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our education programming encompasses our middle school stem program; college and career readiness programming that include tutoring, mentoring, external workplace internships and coaching through the first year after high school graduation. Our young people are supported on their journeys from middle school to high school, and onto diverse college and career postsecondary pathways. Our civic engagement and community organizing programming uses artivism (arts + activism) to call attention to inequities connected to health, food, climate, education, mental health, bullying prevention, lack of access to arts, the negative impacts of social media as well as of racism and a whole host of services and resources including lack of latine representation across all fields and sectors. Our workforce development and stem pathways programming focuses on supporting our young people in exploring career pathways that are underrepresented by latine individuals and achieving their postsecondary career goals through work readiness training and internships. Our arts & culture programming offers our young people the opportunity to participate in the arts, celebrate diverse latine cultural traditions,…
$691,489 spent$39,141 earned by the program36% of program spendingCivic engagement: sociedad latina cultivates youth leadership skills and elevates their voice in decision-making processes that affect latine lives, opportunities and communities. We engaged close to 300 youth through these programs, with 85% understanding how to run a grassroots campaign, 91% building a stronger connection to their community, and 91% feel like more of a leader. Youth leaders are focused on campaigns related to education reform, climate justice, promoting hydroponic gardening, lack of adequate and multicultural & multilinguals mental health supports for youth, the mental and physical toll of social media including the whitewashing that occurs on social media and racial justice. Youth have organized many successful campaigns including passage of policies.
$867,807 spent45% of program spendingArts & culture: sociedad latina offers youth a pathway to music mastery and quality opportunities to create and experience art in the disciplines of visual art, new media, dance, theatre and steam (stem + arts) with a focus on latine cultural traditions. We engage over 800 youth through these programs, with 91% building creativity and critical thinking skills, 85% increasing interest and engagement in the arts, and 75% building cultural pride and improving cultural proficiency. We have been named as a finalist for the national arts and humanities youth program award, recognizing our high-quality approach to creative youth development.
$378,206 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,937,502.
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 2019 to 2020, from $5.6M to $8.3M (+48%).
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 30% · 2018 20% · 2019 39% · 2020 16% · 2021 27% · 2022 22% · 2023 22% · 2024 39% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SOCIEDAD LATINA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Alexandra Oliver-Davila
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $721k → $1.2M.
10 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 SOCIEDAD LATINA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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
SOCIEDAD LATINA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
59% 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 SOCIEDAD LATINA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 33% · 2019 28% · 2020 24% · 2021 11% · 2022 13% · 2023 18% — 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
41% of SOCIEDAD LATINA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
92% of SOCIEDAD LATINA 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. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SOCIEDAD LATINA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOCIEDAD LATINA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.2M on record — $600k federal, $4.6M state.
- National Science Foundation$440k
- National Endowment for the Arts$160k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$4.1M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$520k
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 SOCIEDAD LATINA 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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
- Sociedad Real Estate Holdings Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOCIEDAD LATINA INC?
- SOCIEDAD LATINA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,725,798 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($999,485). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIEDAD LATINA INC have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $10,725,798 in grants to SOCIEDAD LATINA INC, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIEDAD LATINA INC?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $999,485 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIEDAD LATINA 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 83 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