Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC
THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,929,072 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($4,655,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Children's Hospital Corporationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Mass General Brigham Incorporatedlocalportfolio match
- Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Returnlocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $160k → $1.8M.
7 of 38 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: $1.1M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Boston Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 44% · 2019 33% · 2020 83% · 2021 57% · 2022 65% · 2023 38% — 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
33% of THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
91% of THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
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 38 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Children's Hospital Corporationshared funderslocalportfolio matchMA · backs 63 organizations that share your funders · funds 166 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mass General Brigham Incorporatedlocalportfolio matchMA · funds 141 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Returnlocalportfolio matchMA · funds 221 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Wellington Management Foundationshared funderslocalMA · backs 59 organizations that share your funders · funds 71 organizations near you
- Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kuehn Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Social Innovation Forum Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Access Strategies Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Metro Credit Union Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Christensen Dunn Early Foundations Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Viney Wallach Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Devonshire Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
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 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Massinc Polling Group Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH 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.
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 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC?
- THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,929,072 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($4,655,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $8,929,072 in grants to THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC?
- BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,655,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH 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.
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 38funders 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