Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BREWSTER PONDS COALITION
BREWSTER PONDS COALITION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,019 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($43,325). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $260k
What Brewster Ponds Coalition does
Mission
The Brewster Ponds Coalition is dedicated to preserving the natural beauty, healthy habitats, and recreational opportunities of Brewster's ponds and to safeguard them for future generations. The Brewster Ponds Coalition serves to educate, advocate, restore and help secure funding to fulfill this mission. The Brewster Ponds Coalition also work closely with other environmental organizations, neighborhood associations and the Town of Brewster.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Pond Education & Outreach - Held numerous events and forums to educate the community about the importance of water quality protection and remediation options. Continued Science -based educational programs and hands on field trips for Brewster Public Schools with approximately 170 elementary school students, teachers, and volunteers participating.
$1,178 spent3% of program spendingCitizens Science Research Program - Involved cyanobacteria monitoring by 55 volunteers testing 20 ponds from May 28 to Oct. 31; collected over 275 samples for analysis, delivered timely results to the Town of Brewster BOH and BPC subscribers, and posted results on the BPC website. Also 3rd year working with the Cape Cod Commission and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Assoc. (NOAA) on a remote sensing study which compares water clarity from samples drawn by BPC volunteers with satellite imagery taken from space.
$323 spent1% of program spendingSeptic System Plume Mapping and Phosphorus Study - is measuring the flow of nutrient pollution from septic systems upgradient to ponds to help determine which septic system may impact ponds considering soil absorption of nutrients, distance from ponds, leach field elevation above ground water, and home occupancy.
$38,226 spent96% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,727.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $117k to $175k (+50%).
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.
96% of BREWSTER PONDS COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $2k → $11k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 BREWSTER PONDS COALITION’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
BREWSTER PONDS COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 BREWSTER PONDS COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 98% · 2020 73% · 2021 64% · 2022 64% · 2023 58% — 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 BREWSTER PONDS COALITION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
64% of BREWSTER PONDS COALITION'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BREWSTER PONDS COALITION has grown faster than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BREWSTER PONDS COALITION
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.
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BREWSTER PONDS COALITION?
- BREWSTER PONDS COALITION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,019 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($43,325). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BREWSTER PONDS COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $68,019 in grants to BREWSTER PONDS COALITION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BREWSTER PONDS COALITION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $43,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREWSTER PONDS COALITION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 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