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The Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc

The Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,886,114 to it, the largest being MAPPING BOSTON FOUNDATION INC ($3,506,701). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.8M
Revenue FY2025
25
Funders on record
$4.9M
Grants received
$5.1M
Net assets
10/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%

Against its field

The Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Months of reserve20.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 44 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 82 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 56 ($1.4M) Expenses 92 ($1.3M) Net assets 123 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 69 ($1.7M) Expenses 85 ($1.2M) Net assets 159 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 79 ($2.0M) Expenses 90 ($1.3M) Net assets 189 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 62 ($1.6M) Expenses 77 ($1.1M) Net assets 228 ($3.9M)2024 Revenue 57 ($1.4M) Expenses 73 ($1.0M) Net assets 264 ($4.5M)2025 Revenue 73 ($1.8M) Expenses 96 ($1.3M) Net assets 303 ($5.1M)
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Revenue (73)Expenses (96)Net assets (303)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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 14% · 2020 6% · 2021 11% · 2022 23% · 2023 18% · 2024 48% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of The Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.1M
17
$299k
18
$106k
20
$548k
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$725k
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$480k
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$408k
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$485k
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $490k.

6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)10% 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 Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center 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 Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

72%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 69% · 2019 93% · 2020 94% · 2021 73% · 2022 87% · 2023 84%growing more concentrated.

“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

11% of The Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

IL
MA
PA
CA
VA
NC

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. $510k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 25 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.

Government funding The Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.

Federal$1.1M
grants $1.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$531k
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$301k
  • National Archives and Records Administration$229k

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 Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 26%Fundraising 2%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

72%

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 Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center 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.

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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 Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc?
The Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,886,114 to it, the largest being MAPPING BOSTON FOUNDATION INC ($3,506,701). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $4,886,114 in grants to The Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc?
MAPPING BOSTON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,506,701 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25funders 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