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ACCELERATE CHANGE INC

EIN 82-3400062 BOSTON, MA

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Revenue 2024
$28,175,012
Expenses 2024
$30,945,786

Program services were 93.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R22
Classification
2000
Street
294 WASHINGTON ST STE 500

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 500). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO DEVELOP AND TEST NEW MODELS FOR CITIZEN ORGANIZING, PARTICULARLY IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, THAT ARE SCALABLE, FINANCIALLY SELF-SUSTAINING, AND BUILD DEEP, TRUSTED RELATIONSHIPS THAT CAN MOVE PEOPLE TO TAKE ACTION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

EDUCATING THE PUBLIC, AND ESPECIALLY MINORITY AND UNDERPRIVILEGED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, ON A RANGE OF PUBLIC INTEREST ISSUES INCLUDING ECONOMIC EQUALITY, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, HEALTHCARE, THE ENVIRONMENT, IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, POVERTY, HOMELESSNESS, AND DEMOCRACY.

  • THE ACCELERATE CHANGE PROGRAM HELPS SOCIAL CHANGE ORGANIZATIONS BUILD THE PEOPLE POWER AND RESOURCES NEEDED TO MAKE THE LASTING INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES NEEDED FOR ALL COMMUNITIES TO THRIVE. IT HELPS ORGANIZATIONS DEVELOP INNOVATIVE WAYS TO ENGAGE THEIR MEMBERS USING LEAN STARTUP METHODOLOGIES AND OTHER STRATEGIES FOCUSED ON SOLVING REAL PROBLEMS AND ENHANCING THE LIVES OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS. ACCELERATE CHANGE ALSO HELPS FUNDERS TEST NEW MODELS FOR LARGE SCALE, FINANCIALLY SUSTAINABLE CITIZEN ORGANIZING BY IDENTIFYING SCALABLE CIVIC VENTURE OPPORTUNITIES, HELPING GRANTEES TEST NEW MODELS FOR BUILDING MEMBERSHIP, AND BUILDING EARNED REVENUE STRATEGIES INTO GRANTMAKING.

    Expenses $28,775,700 · Grants $4,641,601 · Revenue $665,265

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jonathan Darnell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Marcia Eldridge

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Kathryn Gonzales-Valle

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Celeste Meiffren-Swango

    DIRECTOR (RESIGNED 12/24/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Johanna Neumann

    BOARD CHAIR (RESIGNED 1/17/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Adam Rivera

    TREASURER, SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dan Xie

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Shirley Alfaro

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    33

  • Taura Livingston

    VICE PRESIDENT FINANCE AND OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    33

  • Lea Madry

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    18

  • Peter Murray

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    18

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $28,175,012
    Expenses
    $30,945,786
    Contributions
    $26,592,217
    Grants paid
    $4,641,601
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $30,232,594
    Expenses
    $19,971,882
    Contributions
    $27,807,851
    Grants paid
    $4,810,471
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,562,912
    Expenses
    $9,911,446
    Contributions
    $5,337,885
    Grants paid
    $2,588,682

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,689,192
    Expenses
    $8,307,837
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,728,956

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,733,282
    Expenses
    $8,142,412
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,613,917

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • NOWTHIS MEDIA GROUP LLC

    $3,550,000

    2023 COMMON PROGRAMMATIC PURPOSES

  • PUSHBLACK

    $3,450,000

    2024 TO PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT.

  • PARENTS TOGETHER FOUNDATION

    $2,254,516

    2022 COMMON PROGRAMMATIC PURPOSES

  • PROJECT PULSO INC

    $800,000

    2023 COMMON PROGRAMMATIC PURPOSES

  • GEN-Z FOR CHANGE INITIATIVE INC

    $481,601

    2024 TO PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT.

  • HEADCOUNT INC

    $400,000

    2023 COMMON PROGRAMMATIC PURPOSES

  • PUSHBLACK

    $334,166

    2022 COMMON PROGRAMMATIC PURPOSES

  • NOWTHIS MEDIA GROUP LLC

    $330,000

    2024 TO PROVIDE NEWS AND ISSUE CONTENT REACHING UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING YOUTH, LOW INCOME, AND BIPOC.

  • PROJECT PULSO INC

    $230,000

    2024 TO PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT.

  • HER CAMPUS MEDIA LLC

    $150,000

    2024 TO PROVIDE VOTER REGISTRATION CAMPAIGN SERVICES.

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • PROGRESSIVE FUTURE EDUCATION NETWORK INC

    C · SOCIAL WELFARE · CO

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.