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Teach Western Mass Inc

Teach Western Mass Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,017,789 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($1,785,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.4M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$5.0M
Net assets
$934k
8/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 65%
01What it does

What Teach Western Mass Inc does

Mission

The goal and vision of teach western mass, inc. is to attract, hire, develop, and retain quality teachers for western massachuseets urban classrooms.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Teach Western Mass contracted to generation teach (GT). GT is a non-profit non-partisan organization which partners with district and charter schools to develop talanted and diverse young people ("Teaching Fellows") with local pathways into careers in education. GT's summer program includes a two week training period for teaching fellows as well as a summer academy designed to close the opportunity GAP for low-income urban middle-school students.It gives aspiring teachers without prior education coursework or experience from all backgrounds the chance to lead a classroom while receiving significant support toward earning massachusetts certification.

    $792,220 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $792,220.

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 ($290k) Expenses 100 ($247k) Net assets 100 ($43k)2018 Revenue 239 ($693k) Expenses 266 ($656k) Net assets 177 ($76k)2019 Revenue 591 ($1.7M) Expenses 525 ($1.3M) Net assets 1144 ($491k)2020 Revenue 768 ($2.2M) Expenses 514 ($1.3M) Net assets 3369 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 504 ($1.5M) Expenses 634 ($1.6M) Net assets 3246 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 570 ($1.6M) Expenses 750 ($1.8M) Net assets 2780 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 460 ($1.3M) Expenses 660 ($1.6M) Net assets 2088 ($897k)2024 Revenue 493 ($1.4M) Expenses 564 ($1.4M) Net assets 2175 ($934k)
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Revenue (493)Expenses (564)Net assets (2175)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 2019 to 2020, from $672k to $1.5M (+123%).

$45k
$149k
$672k
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.3M
$950k
$978k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 40% · 2018 85% · 2019 77% · 2020 73% · 2021 58% · 2022 78% · 2023 13% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of Teach Western Mass Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
’17
$36k
’18
$415k
’19
$956k
’20
−$103k
’21
−$200k
’22
−$298k
’23
$37k
’24
7.3
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.

Board chair

Ali Mathias

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed88887746
Joined·+0+0+2+0+0+2+2
No longer listed·0021050
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $150k → $865k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Teach Western Mass 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

Teach Western Mass Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

44% 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 Teach Western Mass Inc.

36%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 37% · 2021 32% · 2022 43% · 2023 35% — 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

83% of Teach Western Mass Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

87% of Teach Western Mass Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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MA
CA

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. $927k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Teach Western Mass Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve7.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding Teach Western Mass Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $737k on record.

State$737k
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Top programs
  • (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$400k
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$337k

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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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 29%Fundraising 7%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Teach Western Mass 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 Teach Western Mass Inc?
Teach Western Mass Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,017,789 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($1,785,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Teach Western Mass Inc have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $5,017,789 in grants to Teach Western Mass Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Teach Western Mass Inc?
BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,785,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Teach Western Mass 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 10 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