Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← All organizations

BOSTON MAIN STREETS FOUNDATION

EIN 20-3510157 BOSTON, MA

Largest nonprofits in Massachusetts

Revenue 2024
$2,144,990
Expenses 2024
$2,001,603

Program services were 82.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A80
Classification
1200
Street
136 BROOKLINE AVE

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO REVITALIZE CITY OF BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD MAIN STREETS.

  • BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY GRANTS, IMPACT AND INNOVATION GRANTS, AND OTHER BUSINESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS USED TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE LOCAL INDEPENDENT CITY OF BOSTON MAIN STREET NEIGHBORHOOD 501(C)(3) CORPORATIONS AND THE BUSINESSES THAT RESIDE THEREIN.

    Expenses $1,659,778 · Grants $1,448,419

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Eric Esteves

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $186,300
    From this org
    $180,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,300
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $180,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,400
    Nontaxable benefits
    $900
    Filer's total
    $186,300

  • Joel Sklar

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Daniel E Rottenberg

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Burton Gesserman

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Chris Gedrich

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Karl Seidman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Michael Hunter

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Ben Starr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Ellen Handly

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Gustavo Quiroga

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Darryl Fess

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Nick Korn

    TRUSTEE (EFF. 01/30/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mark Roberts

    TRUSTEE (EFF. 03/11/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Elle Marrone

    TRUSTEE (EFF. 01/30/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Kira Chaves

    TRUSTEE (EFF. 01/30/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Grace Lee

    TRUSTEE (THRU. 01/30/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Paulo Amado De Barros

    TRUSTEE (THRU. 12/31/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Geri Denterlein

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,144,990
    Expenses
    $2,001,603
    Contributions
    $2,134,593
    Grants paid
    $1,448,419
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $602,868
    Expenses
    $500,553
    Contributions
    $597,215
    Grants paid
    $235,952
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $491,594
    Expenses
    $544,486
    Contributions
    $488,365
    Grants paid
    $416,522

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
    $405,557
    Expenses
    $181,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $571,351

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $53,835
    Expenses
    $309,288
    Assets (EOY)
    $368,945

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $428,930
    Expenses
    $622,099
    Assets (EOY)
    $577,598

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $205,046
    Expenses
    $193,354
    Assets (EOY)
    $807,736

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $527,278
    Expenses
    $145,441
    Assets (EOY)
    $779,077

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,063
    Expenses
    $100,332
    Assets (EOY)
    $383,537

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,751
    Expenses
    $252,131
    Assets (EOY)
    $473,277

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $220,977
    Expenses
    $101,561
    Assets (EOY)
    $740,011

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $435,463
    Expenses
    $122,944
    Assets (EOY)
    $626,879

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $129,834
    Assets (EOY)
    $278,178

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.