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Back Bay Ringers Inc

Back Bay Ringers Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,042 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($15,787). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$117k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$21k
Net assets
$164k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Back Bay Ringers Inc does

Mission

Music cultural & educational arts

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Our organization excels in providing the community with professional-quality public handbell concerts at affordable prices. Through these concerts we promote musical education and appreciation while fostering a sense of community engagement and cultural enrichment. During this fiscal year we performed 8 such concerts reaching a total of approximately 1500 people.

    $33,429 spent
    91% of program spending
  2. Support music education and social justice in the Greater Boston Area.

    $3,289 spent
    9% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,718.

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 ($40k) Expenses 100 ($26k) Net assets 100 ($83k)2018 Revenue 109 ($44k) Expenses 128 ($33k) Net assets 113 ($94k)2021 Revenue 55 ($22k) Expenses 103 ($27k) Net assets 109 ($90k)2022 Revenue 51 ($21k) Expenses 143 ($37k) Net assets 89 ($74k)2023 Revenue 85 ($34k) Expenses 151 ($39k) Net assets 83 ($69k)2024 Revenue 109 ($44k) Expenses 150 ($39k) Net assets 89 ($74k)2025 Revenue 147 ($59k) Expenses 186 ($49k) Net assets 102 ($84k)2026 Revenue 288 ($117k) Expenses 141 ($37k) Net assets 199 ($164k)
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Revenue (288)Expenses (141)Net assets (199)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 2025 to 2026, from $91k to $170k (+86%).

$83k
$94k
$93k
$77k
$74k
$77k
$91k
$170k
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

77% of Back Bay Ringers Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’17
$11k
’18
−$5k
’21
−$16k
’22
−$5k
’23
$5k
’24
$11k
’25
$80k
’26

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Stephanie LaShoto-Westfield

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $66 → $52.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
2

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Back Bay Ringers 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

Back Bay Ringers Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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

76% 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 Back Bay Ringers Inc.

75%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

76% of Back Bay Ringers 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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Back Bay Ringers Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 335 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin69% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 335 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Government funding Back Bay Ringers Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.

State$2k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$2k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Back Bay Ringers 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 Back Bay Ringers Inc?
Back Bay Ringers Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,042 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($15,787). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Back Bay Ringers Inc have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $21,042 in grants to Back Bay Ringers Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Back Bay Ringers Inc?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,787 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Back Bay Ringers 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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