Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC
SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,186,500 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($2,175,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $814k
What Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership Inc does
Mission
Springfield empowerment zone partnership is a ground-breaking initiative to empower the students, families, and educators of springfield, massachusetts with a commitment to access, belonging and opportunity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The partnership oversees the planning, budgeting and day-to-day operations of certain schools of the springfield public school system (sps) and is driving school improvement by empowering sps' principals and their teams. Sps personnel remain employees of the schools, and funding, along with processing of school level payroll and expenses, is provided by sps. The partnership monitors key metrics of success and introduces proven educational practices to foster innovation and accountability in order to raise achievement for all students. The partnership serves over 5,000 students.
$4,516,214 spent$7,362 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,516,214.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.7M (+62%).
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: 2018 62% · 2019 99% · 2020 66% · 2021 65% · 2022 78% · 2023 93% · 2024 89% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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.
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.
Board chair
Christopher Gabrieli
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $215k → $603k.
2 of 11 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 SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 67% · 2022 74% · 2023 75% — 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
50% of SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
72% of SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP 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. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP 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 SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC?
- SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,186,500 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($2,175,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $4,186,500 in grants to SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC?
- BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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