Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE OPEN CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC
THE OPEN CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,405 to it, the largest being GRAVESTAR FOUNDATION ($2,400). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $899k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $902k
What The Open Center for Children Inc does
Mission
Since 1972, the open center for children has worked in partnership with families to create a nurturing early education and care experience. The play-based curriculum inspires children to become motivated, self-directed learners, feel competent in their skills and abilities, express their creativity and develop trusting, respectful relationships with other people. The open center experience helps children develop the tools necessary for living in a diverse world by appreciating differences and being able to resolve conflicts peacefully.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Open center for children provides educational child care services to children from the city of somerville and surrounding communities. Open center is licensed by the commonwealth of massachusetts (the commonwealth"), department of early education and care ("deec"), to provide group child care for up to 29 children, ages 2 years and 3 months to 5 years.
$756,083 spent$815,958 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $756,083.
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.
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 $834k to $1.1M (+32%).
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 13% · 2022 12% · 2023 12% · 2024 10% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $5.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 OPEN CENTER FOR CHILDREN 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 OPEN CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2019 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE OPEN CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding THE OPEN CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1k on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$1k
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 OPEN CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE OPEN CENTER FOR CHILDREN 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE OPEN CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC?
- THE OPEN CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,405 to it, the largest being GRAVESTAR FOUNDATION ($2,400). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE OPEN CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,405 in grants to THE OPEN CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC.
- Who is the largest funder of THE OPEN CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC?
- GRAVESTAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE OPEN CENTER FOR CHILDREN 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.
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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 2 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