Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC
ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,729,881 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,878,973). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 94
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Inc does
Mission
The alliance to protect nantucket sound is a 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the permanent preservation of nantucket sound, the historic body of water that lies between cape cod, martha's vineyard, and nantucket. The goal of the alliance is to permanently protect nantucket sound through designation as a national historic landmark to preserve its rich ecology, recognize its rich tribal history, protect uses such as fishing and recreation, and safeguard it against inappropriate development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Nantucket soundnantucket sound includes 163 square nautical miles of water and seabed between cape cod and the islands. Nantucket sound possesses significant marine habitat for a diversity of ecologically and economically important species. The sound is important for several federally protected species of wildlife and a variety of commercially and recreationally valuable fisheries.the sound is situated at a confluence of the cold labrador currents and the warm gulf stream. This creates a unique coastal habitat, representing the southern range for northern atlantic species and the northern range for mid-atlantic species. Nantucket sound is characterized by an extreme richness of biological diversity, containing habitats that range from open sea to salt marshes. Nantucket sound is more than a body of water. It is a source of livelihood for local fishermen, an inspiration for artists, and a source of solace, relaxation, and recreation for the millions that flock to its shores. The sound is the economic engine of the cape and islands. It is an important and significant natural treasure that must be preserved and protected.nantucket sound is unique for many reasons. It is the only…
$551,529 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $551,529.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $1.5M (+42%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 6% · 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Audra Parker
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 36 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $701k → $766k.
16 of 94 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 94 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
ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 67% · 2019 57% · 2020 54% · 2021 51% · 2022 36% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
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
56% of ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND 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 $2.1M that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Advocates for Nantucket Sound · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND 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 ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC?
- ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,729,881 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,878,973). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 94 organizations giving $4,729,881 in grants to ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,878,973 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 94 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing