Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BECKET ATHENAEUM INC
BECKET ATHENAEUM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $702,663 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($330,638). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $254k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $703k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Becket Athenaeum Inc does
Mission
The becket athenaeum's mission is to enrich and empower the lives of our community members. We provide diverse and responsive resources, services and programming in a safe, inclusive environment, at no cost.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided library services to the towns' residents with a circulation of 8,218; visited 11,537 times; attendance of 2,476 at 246 diverse programs; and public computer use at an average of 1 hour per week.
$156,208 spent69% of program spendingOur grant-funded programming consists of: - financially supporting a traditional after-school program (kids club) held at the becket washington school 5 days/week from 3-5:30pm with weekly visits to the library, keeping the costs down to 7/day/child for families. -recurring programs for adults (monthly book club, cookbook club, game night, and movie night), teens (monthly dungeons & dragons), and children (weekly storytime with stay & play, baby & toddler playgroup, and educational programming for the local elementary school classes). - town of becket camp/becket arts center collaboration: we plan and run enrichment programs for the free town summer camp that serves children ages 6 to 12. -teen intern mentor program: we provide year-round jobs and training for local teens, typically their very first job. We guide them through job applications, interviews, working papers, direct deposit forms, as well as mentoring them for work ethic, skills building, and teamwork. -we schedule 12-24 additional stand-alone programs such as craft and gardening workshops, speakers on a wide variety of topics, and an ever- changing line-up of performers (storytellers, puppeteers, musicians, etc).
$69,327 spent31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $225,535.
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 $1.2M to $1.3M (+12%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 31% · 2018 31% · 2019 34% · 2020 40% · 2021 35% · 2022 44% · 2023 29% · 2024 35% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of BECKET ATHENAEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Cathy Defoe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $90k → $138k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 BECKET ATHENAEUM 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
BECKET ATHENAEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 BECKET ATHENAEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 94% · 2019 92% · 2020 56% · 2021 50% · 2022 64% · 2023 38% — 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
100% of BECKET ATHENAEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
85% of BECKET ATHENAEUM 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 $103k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $600k 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
BECKET ATHENAEUM INC is better cushioned than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BECKET ATHENAEUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$8k
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 BECKET ATHENAEUM 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.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 BECKET ATHENAEUM 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 BECKET ATHENAEUM INC?
- BECKET ATHENAEUM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $702,663 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($330,638). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BECKET ATHENAEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $702,663 in grants to BECKET ATHENAEUM INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BECKET ATHENAEUM INC?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $330,638 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BECKET ATHENAEUM 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 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing