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CAPE AND ISLANDS SELF-RELIANCE CORPORATION INC

CAPE AND ISLANDS SELF-RELIANCE CORPORATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,583 to it, the largest being ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$401k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$87k
Net assets
$231k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Cape and Islands Self-Reliance Corporation Inc does

Mission

Simplifying complex energy concepts to educate, inspire and empower people to take action.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Educational outreach - identifies, faciliates & educates the public about sound enviromental practices that help protect the ecosystem as well as educating energy consumers about energy efficiency, conservation & renewable energy. Facilitating solar system installations in local region - educating the public and trades people that work with energy as well as overcoming various barriers to solar energy. Member services - promote environmentally sound technologies including the establishement of community supported heat and power cooperatives.

    $275,306 spent$134,832 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $275,306.

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 ($252k) Expenses 100 ($269k) Net assets 100 ($100k)2018 Revenue 123 ($310k) Expenses 92 ($248k) Net assets 162 ($162k)2019 Revenue 109 ($276k) Expenses 101 ($270k) Net assets 167 ($167k)2021 Revenue 120 ($302k) Expenses 96 ($258k) Net assets 207 ($207k)2022 Revenue 109 ($275k) Expenses 109 ($293k) Net assets 189 ($189k)2023 Revenue 138 ($349k) Expenses 130 ($348k) Net assets 189 ($189k)2024 Revenue 146 ($368k) Expenses 136 ($366k) Net assets 191 ($190k)2025 Revenue 159 ($401k) Expenses 134 ($360k) Net assets 231 ($231k)
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Revenue (159)Expenses (134)Net assets (231)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 2017 to 2018, from $316k to $378k (+19%).

$316k
$378k
$400k
$457k
$402k
$424k
$395k
$430k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2022 4% · 2023 39% · 2024 35% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

66% of CAPE AND ISLANDS SELF-RELIANCE CORPORATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$16k
’17
$62k
’18
$5k
’19
$44k
’21
−$18k
’22
$671
’23
$1k
’24
$41k
’25
5.5
months of
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.

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Listed87788888
Joined·+0+0·+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·10·0001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $820 → $24k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CAPE AND ISLANDS SELF-RELIANCE CORPORATION 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

CAPE AND ISLANDS SELF-RELIANCE CORPORATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

29% 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 CAPE AND ISLANDS SELF-RELIANCE CORPORATION INC.

58%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 87% · 2022 91% · 2023 53% — 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

71% of CAPE AND ISLANDS SELF-RELIANCE CORPORATION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153 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

CAPE AND ISLANDS SELF-RELIANCE CORPORATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin10% · below the median
Months of reserve5.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CAPE AND ISLANDS SELF-RELIANCE CORPORATION 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.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 CAPE AND ISLANDS SELF-RELIANCE CORPORATION INC?
CAPE AND ISLANDS SELF-RELIANCE CORPORATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,583 to it, the largest being ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAPE AND ISLANDS SELF-RELIANCE CORPORATION INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $86,583 in grants to CAPE AND ISLANDS SELF-RELIANCE CORPORATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAPE AND ISLANDS SELF-RELIANCE CORPORATION INC?
ISLAND FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAPE AND ISLANDS SELF-RELIANCE CORPORATION 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 5 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