Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED
THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,430,630 to it, the largest being Rodman For Kids Inc ($1,120,144). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $39M
What The Key Program Incorporated does
Mission
Key's mission is to assist children and their families in developing positive life skills so they may pursue productive and rewarding lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outreach and tracking, family support centers- care is provided while the youth lives at home, in a foster home, in a kinship home or independently. Youth are from the child welfare, mental health and juvenile justice system. Staff's primary purpose is to provide strength-based, family-focused, and trauma-informed services in all areas of a youth and family's life through structure, support, advocacy and supervision. During the current year, key provided services to 861 youths.
$10,055,785 spentof which $801,700 as grants$12,821,747 earned by the program25% of program spendingResidential treatment program - key provides a full range of residential services to adolescents and young adults from the child welfare, juvenile justice, and mental health systems, with lengths of stay varying from 3 to 18 months. Services include education, individual, group and family counseling, behavior management, recreational activities, advocacy and life skills training, including independent living. During the current year, key provided services to a total of 65 youth.
$14,318,018 spent$15,549,313 earned by the program36% of program spendingShelter program - this program offers emergency placement services for runaways, truants, juvenile justice involved, abused and neglected youth. Care is delivered in a residential home. During the current year, key provided these services to a total of 238 youths.
$9,178,348 spent$11,991,310 earned by the program23% of program spendingFamily networks - family networks is a care management program for child welfare recipients. Under this program, key directs the care management of children and families with providers for residential, aftercare, and specialized family support services. During the current year, key provided these services to a total of 5,631 families.
$3,577,828 spent$6,333,327 earned by the program9% of program spendingMental health clinic - key provides a full range of outpatient mental health services to adolescents and their families including individual and group therapy, assessment and diagnostic testing. During the current year, key provided these services to a total of 516 families.
$2,492,837 spent$2,503,092 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,622,816.
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 2023 to 2024, from $31M to $42M (+35%).
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.
0% of THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Tammy Mello
President & CEO
Board chair
Edward Feldstein Esq
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $355k → $114k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alternatives for Youth Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED raised.
From the IRS filings of THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED’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 KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 99% · 2019 95% · 2020 62% · 2021 43% · 2022 42% · 2023 26% — 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
56% of THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
96% of THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $197k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $310.6M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$309.7M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$809k
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$63k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$4k
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.
Organizations like THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Alternatives for Youth Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED?
- THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,430,630 to it, the largest being Rodman For Kids Inc ($1,120,144). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,430,630 in grants to THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED?
- Rodman For Kids Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,120,144 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED 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 13 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