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SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC

SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 177 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,680,569 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($8,731,534). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8.0M
Funders on record
177
Grants received
$23M
Net assets
$17M
106/177 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc does

Mission

In 2025, special olympics massachusetts provided programming to over 22,400 participants throughout the commonwealth offering over 1,100 competitions with the help of over 12,500 volunteers. Special olympics massachusetts will continue to grow communities of inclusion until every participant who wants to participate can in their community where they live, work or play.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization accomplishments in 2025 include organizing inclusive sports programs in 505 schools with 79 of those schools receiving national recognition for their programming. Of those 79, 6 were first ever boston public schools; launching a gateway city initiative in boston, lawrence and lynn to ensure programming existed afterschool, and on the weekends; and growing the participant base by 17.5%.

    $5,768,018 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,768,018.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.1M) Expenses 100 ($4.4M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 121 ($6.2M) Expenses 113 ($5.0M) Net assets 107 ($12M)2019 Revenue 101 ($5.1M) Expenses 112 ($4.9M) Net assets 115 ($13M)2020 Revenue 86 ($4.4M) Expenses 84 ($3.7M) Net assets 127 ($14M)2021 Revenue 100 ($5.1M) Expenses 80 ($3.5M) Net assets 144 ($16M)2022 Revenue 102 ($5.2M) Expenses 119 ($5.2M) Net assets 134 ($15M)2023 Revenue 110 ($5.6M) Expenses 142 ($6.3M) Net assets 134 ($15M)2024 Revenue 135 ($6.9M) Expenses 154 ($6.8M) Net assets 143 ($16M)2025 Revenue 157 ($8.0M) Expenses 170 ($7.5M) Net assets 151 ($17M)
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Revenue (157)Expenses (170)Net assets (151)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $18M to $19M (+8%).

$16M
$16M
$16M
$18M
$19M
$18M
$18M
$19M
$20M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,898 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$682k
’17
$1.2M
’18
$215k
’19
$681k
’20
$1.6M
’21
−$51k
’22
−$645k
’23
$95k
’24
$483k
’25
1.7
months of
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 Beth Mcmahon

President and CEO

Board chair

Richard Mcdonald

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed272325282728282929
Joined·+2+4+6+4+5+2+6+6
No longer listed·62354256
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 41 funders to 72 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $3.3M.

21 of 177 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 177 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

SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

89% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC.

38%
largest funder
62%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 39% · 2019 31% · 2020 40% · 2021 56% · 2022 43% · 2023 39% — 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

34% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 24 states in all.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve1.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $201k on record.

State$201k
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Top programs
  • (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$100k
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$100k
  • (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$1k
  • (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$200

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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 11%Fundraising 12%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC?
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 177 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,680,569 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($8,731,534). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC have?
IRS filings report 177 organizations giving $22,680,569 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC, 106 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC?
SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,731,534 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS 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 177 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