Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I (Massachusetts) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,443,129 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,291,665). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 111
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Beverly Bootstraps Community Services I does
Mission
Beverly bootstraps community services provides critical resources to families and individuals so they may achieve self-sufficiency. The organization offers emergency and long-term assistance including: access to food, housing stability, adult and youth education, counseling and advocacy. The organization is community funded and supported.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Beverly bootstraps addresses hunger through its food assistance programs, which provide emergency food to those in need. The food pantry distributes food 22 hours each week during shifts monday through thursday. In fy25 the food pantry experienced the highest number of annual visits at 23,307. There were 1,950 senior bags distributed. To support children who are at risk of food insecurity over the weekends and school vacations, 11,317 weekend food bags were delivered to school children in fy25. . Thanksgiving meal ingredients were distributed to households for a total of 748 meals. There were 1,845 visits to our now two refrigerated food locker locations. All of the food assistance programs combined distributed 1,003,691 pounds of food to 6,876 individuals (3159 households).
$2,198,170 spent47% of program spendingBeverly bootstraps runs a retail thrift shop and relies on merchandise donations to sustain an inventory of high-quality, used clothing and household items. The thrift shop is a local community resource that provides shoppers with merchandise at discounted prices and donors the opportunity to recycle items. Clients may receive vouchers for free merchandise. In fy25 there was $40,840 in vouchers written for emergency clothing and household items.
$1,015,512 spent22% of program spendingIn fy25, 945 children received school supplies including backpacks, notebooks, writing implements, pencils, markers and other items needed for their academic success throughout the full school year. The organization also distributed holiday gifts to 822 children helping brighten their holiday season.
$614,229 spent13% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$857,447 spentof which $170,477 as grants18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,685,358.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.3M to $5.0M (+16%).
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 9% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Susan E Gabriel
Executive director (fmr)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $275k → $774k.
17 of 111 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 BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 111 funders by total. 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
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
55% 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 BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 39% · 2019 28% · 2020 23% · 2021 24% · 2022 29% · 2023 19% — 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.
How long its funders stay
52% of BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
71% of BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I has grown faster than half of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: 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 BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I?
- BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I (Massachusetts) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,443,129 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,291,665). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I have?
- IRS filings report 111 organizations giving $5,443,129 in grants to BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,291,665 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I 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 111 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