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JUST A START INC

EIN 23-7121174 CAMBRIDGE, MA

Revenue 2024
$10,255,008
Expenses 2024
$12,808,967

Program services were 82.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S200
Classification
1000
Street
430 RINDGE AVE STE 301

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).

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.

  • SAMUEL GEBRU

    CLERK (UNTIL 6/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 1 related

  • PETER MUNKENBECK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 2 related

  • RICHARD HARDING

    DIRECTOR (UNTIL 6/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • RJ PANZO

    DIRECTOR (UNTIL 6/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • SHAWN FITZPATRICK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • SAMUEL MAMO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • SARA REESE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • TARA DENDY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • SUSAN STOCKARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • MICHAEL R KUHN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 1 related

  • JUNARDY JEAN-CHARLES

    CHAIR (UNTIL 6/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • MAHMOUD RAYA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • ZOE WEINROBE

    VC (UNTIL 6/24)/CHAIR (AS OF 7/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JOEL MIRANDA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JEFFREY MYERS

    CLERK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JACK DONAHUE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • HIWOT BEHABTU

    DIRECTOR (UNTIL 6/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • DONNA LEWIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CARLOS ESPINOSA-TORO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • LISA DRAPKIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 1 related

  • MAX CLERMONT

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CARL NAGY-KOECHLIN

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $205,735
    From this org
    $178,596
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,139
    Hours/week
    35.5 + 2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $178,596
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,624
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,515
    Filer's total
    $205,735

  • ROBERT BRAININ

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & ADMIN

    Total calculated
    $170,705
    From this org
    $145,096
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,609
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,096
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,379
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,230
    Filer's total
    $170,705

  • NOAH SAWYER

    DIRECTOR OF REAL ESTATE

    Total calculated
    $178,340
    From this org
    $152,021
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,319
    Hours/week
    36.5 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $152,021
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,950
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,369
    Filer's total
    $178,340

  • CARMEN CHAN

    DIRECTOR OF RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $144,186
    From this org
    $131,814
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,372
    Hours/week
    37.5

The first 25 listed. 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 — 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
    $10,255,008
    Expenses
    $12,808,967
    Contributions
    $5,846,063
    Grants paid
    $1,725,270
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $13,437,370
    Expenses
    $8,760,951
    Contributions
    $7,170,194
    Grants paid
    $42,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,435,335
    Expenses
    $13,586,032
    Contributions
    $8,324,586
    Grants paid
    $5,091,200

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.

Grants made

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

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 10 September 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.