Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THINK OF MICHAEL
THINK OF MICHAEL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,016 to it, the largest being EVERETT CO-OPERATIVE BANK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $56k
What Think of Michael does
Mission
Primary Exempt Purpose: To provide assistance to lndividuals and families dealing with substance use disorder throughout Eastern Massachusetts as well as raise awareness within the Greater Boston area so as to address the stigma associated with addictions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization's programs benefit individuals in recovery. The Sober House Scholarship Program in which a qualified individual referred to the organization by a clinician or a drug court receives a minimum of one month's free rent at a certified sober home. That month of free rent provides the individual the time to obtain employment and generate the income necessary for them to pay the rent on their own. The sober home provides them with the structure that is necessary for them to succeed. In calendar year 2023 the organization provided subsidies to 62 applicants. There is no way to measure success in the traditional data driven approach. Once they leave the Sober Home, we lose contact with many of them. Relapse if fairly common. Our "accomplishment" is providing them the opportunity. Our Night of Hope is held on the Town Common in Lynnfield, MA. It attracts on average 500 people. The Middle School and High School age children are well represented. We have a short march from the Middle School and proceed to the Town Common. We have two main speakers. One more targeting the parents and the other targeting the youngsters. It's been well received by the community and has been the…
$29,200 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,200.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $102k to $56k (−45%).
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.
100% of THINK OF MICHAEL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $52 → $11k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 THINK OF MICHAEL’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
THINK OF MICHAEL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 45% · 2023 47% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THINK OF MICHAEL's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $466 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.
Against its field
THINK OF MICHAEL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THINK OF MICHAEL
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THINK OF MICHAEL: 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 THINK OF MICHAEL?
- THINK OF MICHAEL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,016 to it, the largest being EVERETT CO-OPERATIVE BANK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THINK OF MICHAEL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $13,016 in grants to THINK OF MICHAEL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THINK OF MICHAEL?
- EVERETT CO-OPERATIVE BANK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THINK OF MICHAEL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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