Home › United States Charities in Massachusetts Registered 37,409 charities
Total income $169.33bn latest returns
Median income $136k per charity
Top-10 share 40% of income
Overview Massachusetts has 37,409 registered charities on the current register extract, of which 15,600 reported income in their latest return. Together they reported $169.33bn of income. The median charity took in $136k, while the largest tenth reported $4.3m or more, so a typical donation goes to a far smaller organisation than the household names at the top of this list.
Income is concentrated: the ten largest charities account for 40% of the total. Across the whole group, 872 charities have a note from the register, such as overdue accounts or three years of spending above income, and those notes are shown on each charity's page.
6,813 of the charities with reported income (44%) took in under $100k a year. Pages for the 9,597 charities with several years of accounts include their full income history, a comparison with similar-sized peers and a breakdown of where the money comes from.
Largest by income # Charity Location Income 1 Mass General Brigham Incorporated and Affiliates Group RTN Somerville, MA $22.73bn 2 Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund Boston, MA $14.73bn 3 President and Fellows of Harvard College Cambridge, MA $6.05bn 4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA $4.95bn 5 Boston Medical Center Health Plan Inc Charlestown, MA $4.14bn 6 Umass Memorial Health Care Inc Worcester, MA $3.73bn 7 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Boston, MA $3.39bn 8 Trustees of Boston University Boston, MA $3.13bn 9 Childrens Hospital Corporation Boston, MA $2.71bn 10 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc Charlestown, MA $2.69bn 11 Northeastern University Boston, MA $2.59bn 12 Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc Boston, MA $2.56bn 13 Boston Medical Center Corporation Boston, MA $2.38bn 14 The Mitre Corporation Bedford, MA $2.37bn 15 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc Canton, MA $2.23bn 16 Mass General Brigham Incorporated Somerville, MA $2.05bn 17 Harvard Management Private Equity Corporation Boston, MA $2.02bn 18 Tempus Unlimited Inc Stoughton, MA $1.99bn 19 Baystate Medical Center Inc Springfield, MA $1.75bn 20 Fallon Community Health Plan Inc Worcester, MA $1.75bn 21 Boston College Trustees Chestnut Hill, MA $1.34bn 22 Trustees of Tufts College Medford, MA $1.34bn 23 Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc Boston, MA $1.30bn 24 Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund Boston, MA $1.19bn 25 Lahey Clinic Hospital Inc Charlestown, MA $1.16bn 26 Southcoast Hospitals Group Inc New Bedford, MA $1.12bn 27 Cape Cod Healthcare Inc Hyannis, MA $1.09bn 28 Broad Institute Inc Cambridge, MA $860.4m 29 South Shore Hospital Inc S Weymouth, MA $828.5m 30 Gates Medical Research Institute Cambridge, MA $809.5m 31 Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc Cambridge, MA $764.6m 32 Berkshire Medical Center Inc Pittsfield, MA $700.9m 33 Harvard Medical Faculty Phys at Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr Inc Boston, MA $666.6m 34 The Lowell General Hospital Lowell, MA $657.1m 35 Trustees of the Smith College Northampton, MA $587.5m 36 Umass Memorial Health Care Inc Worcester, MA $563.7m 37 Beth Israel Lahey Health Inc HCSR Charlestown, MA $553.9m 38 Faculty Practice Foundation Inc Boston, MA $497.7m 39 Brandeis University Waltham, MA $478.7m 40 Northeast Hospital Corporation Charlestown, MA $464.7m 41 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA $462.7m 42 Baystate Medical Practices Inc Springfield, MA $429.1m 43 Williams College Williamstown, MA $424.1m 44 Berklee College of Music Inc Boston, MA $422.1m 45 Seven Hills Foundation Inc Worcester, MA $404.2m 46 Childrens Hospital Pediatric Associates Inc Boston, MA $392.5m 47 Wellesley College Wellesley, MA $385.6m 48 Elderhostel Inc Boston, MA $383.7m 49 Trustees of Amherst College Amherst, MA $379.3m 50 Cha General Services Inc Malden, MA $369.1m 51 Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Plymouth Inc Charlestown, MA $369.1m 52 Brockton Hospital Inc Brockton, MA $367.3m 53 Mount Auburn Hospital Charlestown, MA $366.6m 54 Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc Boston, MA $359.4m 55 Emerson Hospital Concord, MA $358.7m 56 Winchester Hospital Charlestown, MA $356.2m 57 Bentley University Waltham, MA $347.7m 58 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA $345.9m 59 Babson College Wellesley HLS, MA $344.0m 60 MCPHS University Boston, MA $342.3m
Charities by income band $under 10k 26th pct
1,387 charities
$10k-100k 100th pct
5,426 charities
$100k-1m 100th pct
5,438 charities
$1m-10m 44th pct
2,392 charities
$10m-100m 14th pct
780 charities
$100m+ 3rd pct
177 charities
Registrations by year 0 598 1,195 1,793 2,390 00 New registrations: $506 00 01 New registrations: $538 01 02 New registrations: $521 02 03 New registrations: $453 03 04 New registrations: $621 04 05 New registrations: $509 05 06 New registrations: $490 06 07 New registrations: $538 07 08 New registrations: $476 08 09 New registrations: $615 09 10 New registrations: $594 10 11 New registrations: $584 11 12 New registrations: $608 12 13 New registrations: $811 13 14 New registrations: $1,406 14 15 New registrations: $1,007 15 16 New registrations: $941 16 17 New registrations: $951 17 18 New registrations: $1,007 18 19 New registrations: $1,190 19 20 New registrations: $985 20 21 New registrations: $1,141 21 22 New registrations: $1,544 22 23 New registrations: $1,540 23 24 New registrations: $2,195 24 25 New registrations: $2,390 25 26 New registrations: $1,789 26 New registrations By cause Other charitable purposes 7,452 Education and training 5,089 Arts, culture, heritage and science 4,144 Poverty relief 3,466 Religion 3,024 Grant-making and general purposes 3,010 Amateur sport and recreation 2,579 Health and saving lives 2,483 Community and economic development 1,162 Environment and conservation 1,008 Children and youth development 1,002 Housing and shelter 790 Animals 713 Overseas aid and international 672 Human rights and equality 557 Armed forces, emergency and public safety 258