Massachusetts · Nonprofit
UTEC Inc
UTEC Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 141 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,697,076 to it, the largest being RICHARD K & NANCY L DONAHUE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($3,155,739). 100 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 141
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $34M
What UTEC Inc does
Mission
The mission of UTEC, Inc. (UTEC) is to ignite and nurture the ambition of young adults to trade violence and poverty for social and economic success. UTEC was founded in 1999 by teenagers who established their own drop-in center in Lowell, MA, (See Schedule O)The mission of UTEC, Inc. (UTEC) is to ignite and nurture the ambition of young adults to trade violence and poverty for social and economic success. UTEC was founded in 1999 by teenagers who established their own drop-in center in Lowell, MA, as a sanctuary from gang violence. Today, UTEC is nationally recognized for its street outreach and workforce development program model, which is specifically designed to help young adults ages 18-25 overcome the challenges of interrupted education, gang involvement, and incarceration. UTEC operates three social enterprises - Mattress Recycling, Woodworking, and Food Services - that generate revenue to support direct services, and provide job training and employment to young adults.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Workforce Development - Provides youth most in need the opportunity to gain valuable job skills and real earnings to help them pursue positive life choices
$2,059,915 spent20% of program spendingMattress - Through this program, youth pick up, deconstruct and recycle mattresses from across northern New England, learning valuable workplace skills.
$1,466,111 spent$1,451,372 earned by the program14% of program spendingStreetworker - To engage and support young people who are most often overlooked: Intentional street-based outreach, crisis intervention, referrals to community resources, and gang peacemaking.
$1,044,103 spent10% of program spendingCommercial Kitchen: Cafe UTEC provides youth most in need the opportunity to gain valuable job skills and real earnings to help them pursue positive life choices. Expenses $931,072. Including Grants of $0. Revenue $196,875. Education - prepare young people to take the multi-part GED test to earn a high school equivalency credential. It also piloted a dual enrollment program so that young people can earn college credits for work completed with UTEC.Expenses $956,855. Including Grants of $0. Revenue $24,880. Organizing - organizing promotes civic engagement on local and state levels through community organizing and political action.Expenses $992,206. Including Grants of $0. Revenue $0. Transitional Coaching - creates a service plan to address all of a youth's needs, including but not limited to access to basic services, education, employment, family life, and housing.Expenses $675,269. Including Grants of $0. Revenue $0. Woodworking - UTEC provides the opportunity for youth most in need to gain valuable job skills and real earnings to help them pursue positive live choices while creating professional quality wood products. Expenses $365,046. Including Grants of $0. Revenue $65,931.…
$5,695,184 spent$301,395 earned by the program55% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,265,313.
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 2022 to 2023, from $24M to $39M (+60%).
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 33% · 2018 33% · 2019 45% · 2020 40% · 2021 45% · 2022 50% · 2023 58% · 2024 58% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of UTEC Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Gregg Croteau
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
M Scott Mellen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 65 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $3.0M.
23 of 141 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.
From the IRS filings of UTEC Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 141 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
UTEC Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
41% 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 UTEC Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 34% · 2019 37% · 2020 30% · 2021 15% · 2022 17% · 2023 12% — 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
53% of UTEC Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
70% of UTEC 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. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
UTEC Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 135 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 135 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UTEC Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $47.8M on record — $4.4M federal, $43.4M state.
- Department of Justice$4.0M
- Department of Education$484k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$26.5M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$15.3M
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$637k
- (NN) INFRASTRUCTURE:$586k
- (GG) ENERGY COSTS AND SPACE RENTAL$351k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$12k
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 UTEC 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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 2 related entities
- Hurren Street Inc · exempt
- UTEC Hub Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UTEC Inc?
- UTEC Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 141 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,697,076 to it, the largest being RICHARD K & NANCY L DONAHUE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($3,155,739). 100 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UTEC Inc have?
- IRS filings report 141 organizations giving $25,697,076 in grants to UTEC Inc, 100 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UTEC Inc?
- RICHARD K & NANCY L DONAHUE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,155,739 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UTEC 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 141 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