Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Special Needs Advocacy Network Inc
Special Needs Advocacy Network Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $556 to it, the largest being Stoneham Charitable Foundation Inc ($450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $17k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $556
- Net assets
- $14k
What Special Needs Advocacy Network Inc does
Mission
The organization provides training and information to special needs advocates and parents.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
SPAN provides its members with training workshops,resources, networking and information on special education and related issues.
$30,909 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,909.
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 2022 to 2023, from $81k to $30k (−63%).
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.
24% of Special Needs Advocacy Network Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $499 → $57.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 Special Needs Advocacy Network 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
Special Needs Advocacy Network Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% 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: 2022 90% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of Special Needs Advocacy Network Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Special Needs Advocacy Network Inc's revenue fell 80% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding Special Needs Advocacy Network Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$3k
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.
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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.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Special Needs Advocacy Network 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 Special Needs Advocacy Network Inc?
- Special Needs Advocacy Network Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $556 to it, the largest being Stoneham Charitable Foundation Inc ($450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Special Needs Advocacy Network Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $556 in grants to Special Needs Advocacy Network Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Special Needs Advocacy Network Inc?
- Stoneham Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Special Needs Advocacy Network 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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