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CAPE ANN TRAIL STEWARDS INC

CAPE ANN TRAIL STEWARDS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,910 to it, the largest being MCDONAGH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($14,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$51k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$52k
Net assets
$29k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Cape Ann Trail Stewards Inc does

Mission

Primary exempt purpose - facilitating public access to conservation land, and maintain and expand trail systems.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Made signs to identify trail systems and maintained the trails

    $26,195 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,195.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($19k) Expenses 100 ($20k) Net assets 100 ($29k)2021 Revenue 48 ($9k) Expenses 110 ($22k) Net assets 55 ($16k)2022 Revenue 179 ($34k) Expenses 126 ($25k) Net assets 84 ($24k)2023 Revenue 426 ($80k) Expenses 252 ($51k) Net assets 184 ($54k)2024 Revenue 198 ($37k) Expenses 280 ($56k) Net assets 119 ($35k)2025 Revenue 273 ($51k) Expenses 285 ($57k) Net assets 99 ($29k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (273)Expenses (285)Net assets (99)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 2022 to 2023, from $25k to $54k (+116%).

$30k
$16k
$25k
$54k
$35k
$29k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

84% of CAPE ANN TRAIL STEWARDS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,994 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1k
’20
−$13k
’21
$8k
’22
$29k
’23
−$19k
’24
−$6k
’25

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.

Chief executive

Amy Blondin

Secretary and executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $29k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 ANN TRAIL STEWARDS 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 ANN TRAIL STEWARDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

39% 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 ANN TRAIL STEWARDS INC.

27%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 78% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 35% — 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

0% of CAPE ANN TRAIL STEWARDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

91% of CAPE ANN TRAIL STEWARDS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
CA
TX

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

’17
’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CAPE ANN TRAIL STEWARDS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,290 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,290 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like CAPE ANN TRAIL STEWARDS 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.

In Massachusetts

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

64%

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 ANN TRAIL STEWARDS INC?
CAPE ANN TRAIL STEWARDS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,910 to it, the largest being MCDONAGH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($14,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAPE ANN TRAIL STEWARDS INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $51,910 in grants to CAPE ANN TRAIL STEWARDS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAPE ANN TRAIL STEWARDS INC?
MCDONAGH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAPE ANN TRAIL STEWARDS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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