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ACKNOW COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC

ACKNOW COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $372,500 to it, the largest being Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc ($132,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$248k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$373k
Net assets
$58k
1/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Acknow Community Initiatives Inc does

Mission

To engage the community to effect thoughtful and meaningful change that improves the quality of life on nantucket.to carry on any activity in support of and to benefit the purposes as may be carried on by an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code and by a corporation organized under chapter 180 of the massachusetts general laws or the corresponding section of any future tax code or state statute.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Engaging the community of nantucket to support housing needs of local community and workforce

    $166,157 spent
    30% of program spending
  2. To engage in educational initiatives and brining together other philanthropic organizations

    $382,626 spent
    70% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $548,783.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($536k) Expenses 100 ($177k) Net assets 100 ($359k)2024 Revenue 46 ($248k) Expenses 311 ($549k) Net assets 16 ($58k)
20232024
Revenue (46)Expenses (311)Net assets (16)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $359k to $58k (−84%).

$359k
$58k
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ACKNOW COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$359k
’23
−$301k
’24
1.3
months of
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.

Board chair

Carl Jelleme

Chair & director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20232024
Listed88
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 ACKNOW COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

ACKNOW COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

69% 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 ACKNOW COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC.

36%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

69% of ACKNOW COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $115k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.

WI
NY
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $258k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ACKNOW COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC's revenue fell 54% between 2023 and 2024.

Operating margin−122% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−54% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACKNOW COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ACKNOW COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC?
ACKNOW COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $372,500 to it, the largest being Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc ($132,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ACKNOW COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $372,500 in grants to ACKNOW COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ACKNOW COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC?
Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc is the largest funder on record, with $132,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ACKNOW COMMUNITY INITIATIVES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 7 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