Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC
ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,117 to it, the largest being Cape Cod Foundation Inc ($230,317). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliatesshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Cape & Coast Bank Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Green Family Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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.
90% of ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION 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
ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC.
“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
89% of ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION 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 $30k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $237k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliatesshared funderslocalportfolio matchMA · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · funds 52 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cape & Coast Bank Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchMA · backs 49 organizations that share your funders · funds 59 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Green Family Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchMA · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 41 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchMA · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 86 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Falmouth Road Race Inclocalportfolio matchMA · funds 32 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- National Association for College Admission Counselingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Vision Council Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Community Colleges Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Design Labportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seamens Long Point Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Russell-Davidson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION 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 ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC?
- ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,117 to it, the largest being Cape Cod Foundation Inc ($230,317). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $267,117 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC?
- Cape Cod Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $230,317 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing