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BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$21k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$36k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Believe in Community Charitable Foundation does

Mission

(I) to raise money to support residents of scituate, massachusetts, including but not limited to town employees and/or students who attend scituate public schools and families of students and town employees, who are struggling due to unforeseen circumstances like natural disasters, financial hardship and other emergencies. (ii) to raise money to support programs and events that foster a sense of community in scituate and bring scituate residents together; to raise money to promote public safety to ensure that scituate continues to be a safe, resilient and welcoming place to live where neighbors support each other in times of crisis.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. To support residents of scituate, massachusetts who are struggling due to unforeseen circumstances like natural disasters, financial hardship and other emergencies.

  2. To support programs and events that foster a sense of community in scituate and bring scituate residents together; to promote public safety to ensure that scituate continues to be a safe, resilient and welcoming place to live where neighbors support each other in times of crisis.

    $10,000 spent
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,000.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($22k) Expenses 100 ($8k) Net assets 100 ($13k)2024 Revenue 128 ($28k) Expenses 178 ($14k) Net assets 199 ($27k)2025 Revenue 99 ($21k) Expenses 152 ($12k) Net assets 267 ($36k)
202320242025
Revenue (99)Expenses (152)Net assets (267)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $13k to $27k (+99%).

$13k
$27k
$36k
202320242025
Total assets

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,549 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’23
$13k
’24
$9k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin43% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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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 BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: 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 BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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