Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY
ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $289,139 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($111,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $270k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $289k
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Andover Village Improvement Society does
Mission
Avis is a non-profit land trust dedicated to a) acquiring land and preserving it in its natural state and b) encouraging public use and quiet enjoyment of the reservations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Expenses involved in maintaining reservations including upkeep of trails, fields, woodlands, and wetlands; removing hazardous trees; mowing; snowplowing; clearing trash, benefiting all persons using and viewing the reservations, as well as expenses of purchasing and renting equipment, tools and supplies for use in the foregoing activities.
$100,597 spent100% of program spendingExpenses of major improvements to reservations, including building bridges and boardwalks over wetlands, facilitating passage and use by all persons using the reservations.
Revenue and expenses of educating the public about the organization's resources and activities and /or improving the public's experience with the organization including publishing newsletters, printing and distributing resource materials, and maintaining interactions with similar organizations.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $100,597.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.8M to $7.0M (+4%).
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.
69% of ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $18k → $30k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY’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
ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 42% · 2022 40% · 2023 32% — 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
80% of ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
59% of ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY'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 $119k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k 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.
Against its field
ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $93k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$93k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY: 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 ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY?
- ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $289,139 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($111,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $289,139 in grants to ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $111,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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