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THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES

THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,355,072 to it, the largest being Boston Medical Center ($555,834). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$36M
Revenue FY2025
19
Funders on record
$1.4M
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
13/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,338 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($23M) Expenses 100 ($23M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 106 ($25M) Expenses 104 ($24M) Net assets 125 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 112 ($26M) Expenses 109 ($25M) Net assets 192 ($2.6M)2020 Revenue 126 ($29M) Expenses 117 ($27M) Net assets 347 ($4.8M)2021 Revenue 123 ($29M) Expenses 119 ($28M) Net assets 421 ($5.8M)2022 Revenue 138 ($32M) Expenses 118 ($27M) Net assets 764 ($10M)2023 Revenue 126 ($29M) Expenses 124 ($29M) Net assets 792 ($11M)2024 Revenue 142 ($33M) Expenses 139 ($32M) Net assets 840 ($12M)2025 Revenue 153 ($36M) Expenses 152 ($35M) Net assets 815 ($11M)
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Revenue (153)Expenses (152)Net assets (815)Peer revenue range

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
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 7% · 2023 2% · 2024 5% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

3% of THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,738 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$59k
17
$350k
18
$909k
19
$2.1M
20
$1.0M
21
$4.7M
22
$403k
23
$649k
24
$244k
25
1.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $26k → $128k.

3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)7% 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 BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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

THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

86% 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 BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES.

41%
largest funder
63%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 55% · 2019 55% · 2020 32% · 2021 31% · 2022 36% · 2023 46%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

44% of THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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

100% of THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA

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. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

90%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES?
THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,355,072 to it, the largest being Boston Medical Center ($555,834). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,355,072 in grants to THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES?
Boston Medical Center is the largest funder on record, with $555,834 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES 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 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing