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Beaver Institute Inc

Beaver Institute Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $719,921 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($255,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$354k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$720k
Net assets
$377k
9/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What Beaver Institute Inc does

Mission

The Corporation is organized and shall at all times be operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes to help resolve beaver-human conflicts in a humane and science based manner by providing education, supporting scientific research, training mitigation professionals, and increasing public appreciation of the beaver's critical role in creating wetland ecosystems, and carrying on any other activities permitted by Massachusetts law.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Maintained a social media presence to raise beaver awareness reaching over 3000 website visitors per month. Emailed self-help information in response to hundreds of beaver inquiries. BeaverCorps Training Program accepted 12 additional trainees and many started installing their first flow devices. Social media presence continued with numerous posts on Facebook, Instagram and the organization's website. Administered the Beaver Management Forum, a Facebook discussion group with over 1400 members. Launched the Connecticut Beaver Initiative, a landowner assistance grant program, to resolve beaver problems non lethally in Connecticut with the financial assistance from the John A. and Jane T. Wiederhold Foundation. Organized the Beaver Climate Coalition group of like-missioned organizations regarding the climate benefits of beaver wetlands.

    $252,659 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $252,659.

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 ($15k) Expenses 100 ($5k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2018 Revenue 86 ($13k) Expenses 113 ($5k) Net assets 175 ($18k)2019 Revenue 152 ($23k) Expenses 122 ($6k) Net assets 339 ($35k)2020 Revenue 704 ($106k) Expenses 1539 ($71k) Net assets 672 ($70k)2021 Revenue 1050 ($158k) Expenses 725 ($34k) Net assets 1866 ($194k)2022 Revenue 1455 ($218k) Expenses 2946 ($136k) Net assets 2658 ($276k)2023 Revenue 1623 ($244k) Expenses 4039 ($187k) Net assets 3205 ($333k)2024 Revenue 2360 ($354k) Expenses 6708 ($310k) Net assets 3628 ($377k)
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Revenue (2360)Expenses (6708)Net assets (3628)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 2020 to 2021, from $83k to $220k (+164%).

$15k
$18k
$45k
$83k
$220k
$276k
$342k
$386k
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of Beaver Institute Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
$8k
’18
$17k
’19
$35k
’20
$124k
’21
$82k
’22
$57k
’23
$44k
’24
15
months of
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.

202220232024
Listed668
Joined·+2+2
No longer listed·20
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $185k.

5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Beaver Institute 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

Beaver Institute Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

72% 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 Beaver Institute Inc.

35%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 54% · 2022 43% · 2023 49% — 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

75% of Beaver Institute Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

Beaver Institute Inc draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 11 states in all.

WA
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CO
MD
DE
DC
FL

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. $340k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Beaver Institute Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve14.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)57% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding Beaver Institute Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.

State$3k
Top programs
  • PROF DEV INSTATE TUITION/REGISTRATION$3k

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 Beaver Institute 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 16%Fundraising 3%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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 Beaver Institute Inc?
Beaver Institute Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $719,921 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($255,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Beaver Institute Inc have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $719,921 in grants to Beaver Institute Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Beaver Institute Inc?
Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $255,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Beaver Institute 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 18 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