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BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,049,865 to it, the largest being Amelia Peabody Foundation ($1,000,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$8.8M
Revenue FY2024
73
Funders on record
$9.0M
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
45/73 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%

Against its field

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,925 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin57% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,925 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 113 ($2.1M) Expenses 108 ($1.9M) Net assets 114 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 229 ($4.3M) Expenses 121 ($2.1M) Net assets 274 ($3.8M)2020 Revenue 214 ($4.1M) Expenses 120 ($2.1M) Net assets 428 ($5.9M)2021 Revenue 297 ($5.6M) Expenses 138 ($2.4M) Net assets 661 ($9.1M)2022 Revenue 199 ($3.8M) Expenses 160 ($2.8M) Net assets 700 ($9.6M)2023 Revenue 230 ($4.4M) Expenses 194 ($3.4M) Net assets 793 ($11M)2024 Revenue 465 ($8.8M) Expenses 212 ($3.7M) Net assets 1142 ($16M)
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Revenue (465)Expenses (212)Net assets (1142)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 16% · 2018 13% · 2019 7% · 2020 16% · 2021 16% · 2022 13% · 2023 16% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,026 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.

$129k
17
$231k
18
$2.2M
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$1.9M
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$3.2M
21
$946k
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$934k
23
$5.1M
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $162k → $1.3M.

12 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC raised.

From the IRS filings of BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

35% 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC.

11%
largest funder
33%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 23% · 2019 82% · 2020 19% · 2021 24% · 2022 16% · 2023 38%growing more concentrated.

“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

62% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

81% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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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. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 73 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.7M on record — $2.2M federal, $7.5M state.

Federal$2.2M
grants $2.2Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Labor$2.2M
State$7.5M
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$7.3M
  • (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$200k
  • (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$735

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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

48% of spending goes to programs.

Program 48%Management 33%Fundraising 19%

Governance

27
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC?
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,049,865 to it, the largest being Amelia Peabody Foundation ($1,000,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC have?
IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $9,049,865 in grants to BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC?
Amelia Peabody Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL 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.

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 73funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing