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BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC

BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,445 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($183,800). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$153k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$383k
Net assets
$196k
10/12 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Buzzards Bay Musicfest Inc does

Mission

To provide recreation

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To provide recreation to the people in the buzzards bay area

    $97,815 spentof which $5,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,815.

02The 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 ($34k) Expenses 100 ($27k) Net assets 100 ($27k)2018 Revenue 113 ($38k) Expenses 96 ($26k) Net assets 147 ($40k)2019 Revenue 167 ($56k) Expenses 100 ($27k) Net assets 256 ($69k)2020 Revenue 83 ($28k) Expenses 65 ($17k) Net assets 296 ($80k)2021 Revenue 180 ($61k) Expenses 58 ($15k) Net assets 463 ($126k)2022 Revenue 142 ($48k) Expenses 72 ($19k) Net assets 569 ($155k)2023 Revenue 106 ($36k) Expenses 80 ($21k) Net assets 622 ($169k)2024 Revenue 412 ($139k) Expenses 509 ($136k) Net assets 634 ($172k)2025 Revenue 455 ($153k) Expenses 487 ($130k) Net assets 721 ($196k)
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Revenue (455)Expenses (487)Net assets (721)Peer revenue range

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 $81k to $126k (+56%).

$28k
$41k
$70k
$81k
$126k
$155k
$170k
$173k
$197k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

100% of BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’17
$13k
’18
$30k
’19
$11k
’20
$45k
’21
$29k
’22
$14k
’23
$3k
’24
$24k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $30k → $60k.

1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST 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

BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

48% 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 BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC.

48%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 44% · 2019 49% · 2020 45% · 2021 44% · 2022 47% · 2023 55% — 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

78% of BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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

96% of BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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MO

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. $184k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC

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.

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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

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Questions and answers

Who funds BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC?
BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,445 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($183,800). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $383,445 in grants to BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $183,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST 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.

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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 12 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