Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,158 to it, the largest being SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($398,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Incshared funderslocal
- The Clinton Roberts Foundation Incportfolio match
- Northwest Alabama Resource Conservation & Developement Councilportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 23% · 2022 96% · 2023 85% · 2024 84% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $98k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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: $8k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest New Bedford Economic Development Council Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION 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
BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 82% · 2022 87% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
75% of BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION 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 $142k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $424k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 41 organizations near you
- The Clinton Roberts Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest Alabama Resource Conservation & Developement Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ripley County Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Brazos Valleyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John H Witte Jr Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry & Virginia Murray Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lamson Howell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glenn R Logan & Rhea Jean McCandless Logan Family Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record — $500k federal, $721k state.
- Department of Labor$500k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$721k
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 BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION 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.
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 BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC?
- BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,158 to it, the largest being SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($398,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $566,158 in grants to BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC?
- SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $398,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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