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ANCHOR TO WINDWARD INC

ANCHOR TO WINDWARD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,500 to it, the largest being MARBLEHEAD FEMALE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$77k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$101k
Net assets
$180k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Anchor to Windward Inc does

Mission

Provide independent living and social networking services to adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Programming dedicated to developing the full potential of special needs adults and adolescents by teaching a variety of social and daily living skills and encouraging peer socialization

    $0 spentof which $17,336 as grants

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

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 ($170k) Expenses 100 ($151k) Net assets 100 ($175k)2019 Revenue 92 ($157k) Expenses 105 ($159k) Net assets 101 ($176k)2020 Revenue 70 ($118k) Expenses 87 ($131k) Net assets 94 ($163k)2021 Revenue 84 ($144k) Expenses 82 ($124k) Net assets 105 ($183k)2022 Revenue 85 ($145k) Expenses 77 ($117k) Net assets 121 ($211k)2023 Revenue 67 ($113k) Expenses 72 ($109k) Net assets 123 ($215k)2024 Revenue 60 ($103k) Expenses 70 ($106k) Net assets 121 ($212k)2025 Revenue 45 ($77k) Expenses 72 ($109k) Net assets 103 ($180k)
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Revenue (45)Expenses (72)Net assets (103)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 2024 to 2025, from $213k to $182k (−15%).

$176k
$189k
$165k
$183k
$212k
$216k
$213k
$182k
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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.

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2019
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2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

23% of ANCHOR TO WINDWARD INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’17
−$1k
’19
−$13k
’20
$19k
’21
$28k
’22
$4k
’23
−$3k
’24
−$32k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $14k → $11k.

From the IRS filings of ANCHOR TO WINDWARD 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

ANCHOR TO WINDWARD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 71% · 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 94% — 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.

Where its funders are

92% of ANCHOR TO WINDWARD INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

ANCHOR TO WINDWARD INC's revenue fell 55% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−42% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

89%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ANCHOR TO WINDWARD INC?
ANCHOR TO WINDWARD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,500 to it, the largest being MARBLEHEAD FEMALE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ANCHOR TO WINDWARD INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $100,500 in grants to ANCHOR TO WINDWARD INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ANCHOR TO WINDWARD INC?
MARBLEHEAD FEMALE HUMANE SOCIETY INC is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ANCHOR TO WINDWARD 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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