Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 468 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,352,584 to it, the largest being The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($53,210,812). 279 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 276 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 276 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Yawkey Foundation IIshared funders
- The Horrigan Fam 2022 Charitable 0776258 Foundationportfolio match
- Trustees of Tufts Collegeshared funders
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: 2017 2% · 2018 7% · 2019 8% · 2020 13% · 2021 5% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 110 funders to 178 funders, grant income rose $25M → $43M.
68 of 468 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $1.7M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest third sector new england inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 468 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
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
32% 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 THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 28% · 2019 29% · 2020 17% · 2021 14% · 2022 14% · 2023 15% — 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
43% of THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 33 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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 468 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Yawkey Foundation IIshared fundersMA · backs 73 organizations that share your funders
- The Horrigan Fam 2022 Charitable 0776258 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trustees of Tufts Collegeshared fundersMA · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Incshared fundersMA · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
- Mertz Gilmore Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-Ishared fundersMA · backs 76 organizations that share your funders
- Democracy Fund Incshared fundersDC · backs 74 organizations that share your funders
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared fundersNY · backs 71 organizations that share your funders
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 87 organizations that share your funders
- Brown Universityshared fundersRI · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
- Ploughshares Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitableshared fundersMA · backs 91 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.
Government funding THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23.4M on record — $13.2M federal, $10.1M state.
- Department of Agriculture$7.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.2M
- Department of Justice$1.7M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
- Environmental Protection Agency$30k
- MA$8.9M
- OR$878k
- VT$188k
- CT$124k
- NJ$34k
- DE$8k
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 THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Third Sector Holdings Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND 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 THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC?
- THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 468 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,352,584 to it, the largest being The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($53,210,812). 279 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 468 organizations giving $282,352,584 in grants to THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC, 279 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC?
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $53,210,812 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND 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 468funders 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