Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Aquinnah Community Association Inc
Aquinnah Community Association Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,728 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($82,678). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $41k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $37k
What Aquinnah Community Association Inc does
Mission
Its purposes as set forth in its Articles of Incorporation are (a) to gather and disseminate information regarding the town's functions and operations, to facilitate such functions and operations, and to foster improvement in the quality of life for all people who own property or reside in or visit the Town, (b) to ensure the effective enforcement of all municipal laws and regulations, the proper collection and disbursement of public funds, and the prompt discharge of the Town's administrative responsibilities, (c) to assist the Town' public works, including the volunteer fire department, town library, playgrounds and beaches, (d) to encourage historic and environmental preservation in the Town, and (e) to carry on any other charitable or educational activity within the meaning of Sec. 501 (c) (3) or the applicable Massachusetts corporate laws. Our activities have been and are consistent with those purposes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Its purposes as set forth in its Articles of Incorporation are (a) to gather and disseminate information regarding the town's functions and operations, to facilitate such functions and operations, and to foster improvement in the quality of life for all (Continued on Schedule O) people who own property or reside in or visit the Town, (b) to ensure the effective enforcement of all municipal laws and regulations, the proper collection and disbursement of public funds, and the prompt discharge of the Town's administrative responsibilities, (c) to assist the Town' public works, including the volunteer fire department, town library, playgrounds and beaches, (d) to encourage historic and environmental preservation in the Town, and (e) to carry on any other charitable or educational activity within the meaning of Sec. 501 (c) (3) or the applicable Massachusetts corporate laws. Our activities have been and are consistent with those purposes.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOne-time awards to graduating high school seniors from Aquinnah of $2,000 each to assist in their future educational or vocational plans for 6 graduates
$12,000 spent100% of program spendingDonation to the Permanent Endowment for Martha's Vineyard designated to the Emergency Rental Relief Fund established by the Dukes County Regional Housing Authority to provide rent relief for the residents of Dukes County, MA who do not qualify for government housing subsidies. Donations to the Town of Aquinnah in support of the annual 10k road race. Donations in support of the construction of a playground behind town hall. Donation to the town of Aquinnah to fund the construction or a pergola at Aquinnah Cliffs. Donation of two beach wheelchairs to the Town of Aquninnah.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,000.
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 2017 to 2018, from $69k to $44k (−37%).
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.
100% of Aquinnah Community Association Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $16k → $15k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 Aquinnah Community Association 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
Aquinnah Community Association Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 Aquinnah Community Association Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 91% · 2019 95% · 2020 56% · 2021 76% · 2022 94% · 2023 61% — 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
25% of Aquinnah Community Association Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
77% of Aquinnah Community Association 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 $27k that is directly attributable, 96% 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. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Aquinnah Community Association Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Aquinnah Community Association 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.
Public support
66%
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 Aquinnah Community Association 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 Aquinnah Community Association Inc?
- Aquinnah Community Association Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,728 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($82,678). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Aquinnah Community Association Inc have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $115,728 in grants to Aquinnah Community Association Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Aquinnah Community Association Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $82,678 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Aquinnah Community Association 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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