Massachusetts · Nonprofit
The Boston Consortium for Higher Educati
The Boston Consortium for Higher Educati (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $833,000 to it, the largest being DAVIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ($833,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $833k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What The Boston Consortium for Higher Educati does
Mission
The Boston Consortium for Higher Education empowers its member institutions to thrive in a dynamic and challenging environment. Through innovative programs, initiatives, and thought leadership, TBC enables members to improve their financial and operational performance as well as the quality of their offerings.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Boston Consortium for Higher Educations programming is focused on servicing their members with the community of practice and the share service programs. The Boston Consoritum for Higher Education's Communities of Practice serve as forums for discussion, support, information sharing, and problem solving among peers. The communities gather in-person, conduct video meetings, and connect via TBCs listservs. Through the meetings and listservs, members share best practices, brainstorm ideas for new shared services and contracts for cost savings, and deepen their collegial relationships through collaboration. The Boston Consortium for Higher Education manages shared service programs designed to help members realize additional value, collaborate, and achieve administrative excellence. Shared services include internal audit services, risk management services, and the Academic and Healthcare Travel Program which offers discounts for domestic and international travel.
$1,333,345 spent$1,555,362 earned by the program100% of program spendingDuring FY23 the Consortium received grants and funding from participating institutions to create an insurance captive to support the objectives of the member institutions. The primary objectives of this captive were long-term cost savings, more predictable costs that were less subject to commercial market volatility and to provide increased control of coverage and capacity. In FY24 the Consortium provided $100,000 assistance to edRisk to assist with the program.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,333,345.
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 $2.7M to $2.1M (−21%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 16% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of The Boston Consortium for Higher Educati’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Katherine Kennedy
Executive Director
Board chair
Samuel Solomon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $98k → $735k.
From the IRS filings of The Boston Consortium for Higher Educati’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.
Where its funders are
The Boston Consortium for Higher Educati draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
The Boston Consortium for Higher Educati is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 The Boston Consortium for Higher Educati: 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 The Boston Consortium for Higher Educati?
- The Boston Consortium for Higher Educati (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $833,000 to it, the largest being DAVIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ($833,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Boston Consortium for Higher Educati have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $833,000 in grants to The Boston Consortium for Higher Educati, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Boston Consortium for Higher Educati?
- DAVIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $833,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Boston Consortium for Higher Educati 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.
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 1 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