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AGAWAM COUNCIL

AGAWAM COUNCIL (Maine) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,479,940 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($951,489). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.7M
Funders on record
41
Grants received
$3.5M
Net assets
$11M
26/41 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Agawam Council does

Mission

Agawam Council is an organization that provides a group living experience for young people through its programs camp agawam and main idea at camp agawam the nurturing, safe environment and facilities permit a wide variety of sports and learning activities the ultimate goal is to promote personal growth, character, development of optimum potential and responsibility, leadership skills, enhancement of self-esteem, and awareness of community, beauty, truth, fortitude, and love for everyone involved with the organization

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Agawam Council is an organization that provides a group living experience for young people through its programs camp agawam and main idea. At camp agawam the nurturing, safe environment and facilities permit a wide variety of sports and learning activities. The ultimate goal is to promote personal growth, character, development of optimum potential and responsibility, leadership skills, enhancement of self-esteem, and awareness of community, beauty, truth, fortitude, and love for everyone involved with the organization.

    $2,374,950 spentof which $395,270 as grants$1,780,105 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,374,950.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.9M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($5.7M)2018 Revenue 109 ($4.2M) Expenses 101 ($2.0M) Net assets 140 ($8.1M)2019 Revenue 100 ($3.9M) Expenses 113 ($2.2M) Net assets 170 ($9.8M)2020 Revenue 32 ($1.2M) Expenses 58 ($1.1M) Net assets 174 ($10M)2021 Revenue 55 ($2.1M) Expenses 109 ($2.1M) Net assets 182 ($10M)2022 Revenue 52 ($2.0M) Expenses 101 ($2.0M) Net assets 173 ($9.9M)2023 Revenue 52 ($2.0M) Expenses 114 ($2.2M) Net assets 174 ($10.0M)2024 Revenue 70 ($2.7M) Expenses 128 ($2.5M) Net assets 189 ($11M)2025 Revenue 70 ($2.7M) Expenses 137 ($2.7M) Net assets 197 ($11M)
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Revenue (70)Expenses (137)Net assets (197)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 2017 to 2018, from $6.2M to $8.6M (+39%).

$6.2M
$8.6M
$10M
$11M
$11M
$10M
$10M
$11M
$12M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

28% of AGAWAM COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.9M
’17
$2.2M
’18
$1.7M
’19
$103k
’20
−$474
’21
$25k
’22
−$235k
’23
$198k
’24
$39k
’25
7.9
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.

Chief executive

Doc Potter

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed272020202123302623
Joined·+2+0+4+7+4+8+4+1
No longer listed·90462184
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $279k → $414k.

20 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 AGAWAM COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. 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

AGAWAM COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

85% 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 AGAWAM COUNCIL.

27%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 50% · 2019 40% · 2020 40% · 2021 24% · 2022 20% · 2023 27% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

54% of AGAWAM COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

85% of AGAWAM COUNCIL'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 $524k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 9 states.

ME
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
DE
NC
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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

AGAWAM COUNCIL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve7.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like AGAWAM COUNCIL

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maine

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 6%Fundraising 6%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

73%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds AGAWAM COUNCIL?
AGAWAM COUNCIL (Maine) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,479,940 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($951,489). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AGAWAM COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $3,479,940 in grants to AGAWAM COUNCIL, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AGAWAM COUNCIL?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $951,489 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AGAWAM COUNCIL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 41 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