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THE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC

THE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $316,631 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$177k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$317k
Net assets
$91k
5/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What The Born to Run Foundation Inc does

Mission

The Born to Run Foundation provides specialized prosthetics to young adults and children; to help amputees participate in the activities they love and to show them that being different is something to embrace.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Funds for prosthetic limbs were provided to recipients under the age of 21

    $190,949 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $190,949.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($167k) Expenses 100 ($153k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2022 Revenue 75 ($125k) Expenses 105 ($160k) Net assets 61 ($38k)2023 Revenue 179 ($298k) Expenses 85 ($130k) Net assets 264 ($163k)2024 Revenue 66 ($110k) Expenses 90 ($138k) Net assets 220 ($135k)2025 Revenue 106 ($177k) Expenses 144 ($220k) Net assets 148 ($91k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (106)Expenses (144)Net assets (148)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 2022 to 2023, from $38k to $163k (+334%).

$87k
$38k
$163k
$135k
$91k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

84% of THE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’21
−$36k
’22
$168k
’23
−$28k
’24
−$43k
’25
5.0
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed77777
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $17k → $107k.

9 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 THE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION 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

THE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

93% 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 THE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC.

24%
largest funder
61%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 94% · 2020 57% · 2021 49% · 2022 39% · 2023 70% — 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

0% of THE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 28% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

66% of THE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $107k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

ME
NY
MA
NJ
MO
NC
FL

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $210k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $317k to it.

Operating margin−25% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
86%
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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Questions and answers

Who funds THE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC?
THE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $316,631 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $316,631 in grants to THE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC?
AMERICAN GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 18 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