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COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC

COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $725 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($575). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$721k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$725
Net assets
$953k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Community Nursery School Inc does

Mission

To provide a valuable cooperative nursery school experience for children of preschool age.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Preschool education for children ages three to five

    $475,269 spent$660,403 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $475,269.

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 ($554k) Expenses 100 ($561k) Net assets 100 ($659k)2018 Revenue 98 ($540k) Expenses 99 ($555k) Net assets 98 ($644k)2019 Revenue 92 ($510k) Expenses 95 ($533k) Net assets 94 ($621k)2020 Revenue 80 ($443k) Expenses 92 ($515k) Net assets 83 ($549k)2021 Revenue 60 ($330k) Expenses 58 ($325k) Net assets 84 ($555k)2022 Revenue 106 ($590k) Expenses 81 ($453k) Net assets 105 ($691k)2023 Revenue 107 ($596k) Expenses 91 ($508k) Net assets 118 ($778k)2024 Revenue 107 ($592k) Expenses 92 ($518k) Net assets 129 ($852k)2025 Revenue 130 ($721k) Expenses 111 ($621k) Net assets 145 ($953k)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (111)Net assets (145)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 2024 to 2025, from $1.5M to $1.6M (+11%).

$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.6M
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 23% · 2024 24% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’17
−$14k
’18
−$24k
’19
−$72k
’20
$6k
’21
$137k
’22
$87k
’23
$74k
’24
$101k
’25
13
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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Listed222120191416151516
Joined·+1+9+11+9+10+6+8+6
No longer listed·21012148785
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $50 → $134.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL 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

COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

79% 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 COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC.

79%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 66% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

79% of COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL 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 $150 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

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

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’21
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $575 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

COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve13.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL 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

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 1%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC?
COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $725 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($575). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $725 in grants to COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $575 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL 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 2 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