Massachusetts · Nonprofit
TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC
TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,283,969 to it, the largest being THE JOHN MERCK FUND ($305,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $158k
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Toxics Action Center Inc does
Mission
To organize side-by-side with communities, providing them with the skills and resources needed to prevent or clean up pollution at the local level.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
At Toxics Action Center, we believe that environmental threats are big, but the power of well-organized community groups is bigger. That's why we work with everyday people to confront those who are polluting and harming the health of our communities. We partner with those most impacted by environmental problems, training them with the know-how anyone would need to make change in their own backyard. Since 1987, we've assisted over 1,000 communities representing over 20,000 activists across the region. We provide in-person trainings to create a powerful community group with an action plan that works, conduct personalized leadership training, and bring community leaders together at key events to build our movement, because when neighbors know how to make change, they can build the power to transform our world.
$118,135 spentof which $6,417 as grants100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $118,135.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.6M to $2.4M (−35%).
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: 2022 12% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $248k → $12k.
14 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
52% 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 TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 19% · 2019 34% · 2020 22% · 2021 39% · 2022 37% · 2023 50% — 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
25% of TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $637k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$2k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$45
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 TOXICS ACTION CENTER 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
64% 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 5 states
Part of a family of 21 related entities
- Bold Education Fund · exempt
- California Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc · exempt
- Center for Public Interest Research Inc · exempt
- Colorado Public Interest Research Foundation Inc · exempt
- Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TOXICS ACTION 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC?
- TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,283,969 to it, the largest being THE JOHN MERCK FUND ($305,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $2,283,969 in grants to TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC?
- THE JOHN MERCK FUND is the largest funder on record, with $305,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOXICS ACTION 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 51 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