Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC
THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,012,367 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($207,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Thrive Support and Advocacy Inc does
Mission
Thrive celebrates and nurtures the abilities of people with developmental disabilities in metrowest, worcester county, central massachusetts, and beyond. Our organization provides the space, support, and resources to help individuals, caregivers and families thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential servicesthrive community residences are a safe and nurturing environment for 51 adults with developmental or intellectual disabilities. Thrive empowers and encourages residents to be active and contributing members of their community. We help our residents realize their highest independence level by creating meaningful moments filled with self-confidence and happiness. Thrive promotes an environment where the residents' voices are heard; they contribute to the household and cultivate meaningful relationships. We provide space, support, and resources to complement strengths and help them find their chosen path.thrive supports individuals in group homes, supported living and independent living arrangements, through service navigation and through social and recreational programming. Access to thrive's extensive social and recreational experiences increase self-confidence and sense of belonging. The agency's goal is to help the participants live independently while being active contributing members of their community.
$6,925,915 spent$356,932 earned by the program71% of program spendingYouth and family servicesfamilies have a variety needs and desires when caring for a loved one with intellectual or developmental challenges. As a family support center, thrive provides an array of supports including connecting participants and families to available services and resources; providing social and skill building opportunities for individuals and families; joining families through information caregiver workshops, and supporting participants with personal, medical, and daily living needs.thrive's social and recreational experiences are for individuals ages 7-25 (age ranges are flexible) with developmental or intellectual challenges. Thrive creates a sense of belonging and community. Thrive's experiences include social activities, social groups, special events, sports/recreation activities, field trips, gender or interest-specific social groups, sports teams, and creative pursuits such as pottery, painting and dance nights. Thrive also offers learning and educational experiences. The aim is to help discover what it takes to become leaders and improve the world around them.
$2,676,725 spentof which $268,671 as grants$26,562 earned by the program27% of program spendingSocial & recreationthrive adult social & recreation experiences for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities foster feelings of belonging, accomplishment, and connection. With more than 25 activities, weekly adults can participate in social activities, social groups, sports & recreational happenings, and special events. These experiences are meant to build self-esteem, bring participants into the community, and offer the community an appreciation for the unique gifts of our thrivers. These activities are developed and have evolved based on the desires and interests of thrive participants. Most importantly, thrive provides transportation to activities, helping individual support with supported living arrangement/community habitation and independent living.
$193,607 spentof which $37,250 as grants$16,253 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,796,247.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $3.4M to $4.7M (+39%).
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: 2018 89% · 2019 88% · 2020 91% · 2021 91% · 2022 86% · 2023 91% · 2024 93% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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
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.
Chief executive
Sean Rose
President & CEO
Board chair
Steven Wall
Chair person
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $35k → $107k.
6 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
57% 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 THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 41% · 2019 25% · 2020 27% · 2021 35% · 2022 31% · 2023 33% — 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.
How long its funders stay
41% of THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
94% of THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY 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. $351k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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
THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $53.7M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$53.6M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$91k
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 THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
- Gmp Development Corp · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC?
- THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,012,367 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($207,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,012,367 in grants to THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC?
- CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) is the largest funder on record, with $207,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 34 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