Massachusetts · Nonprofit
DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB INC
DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,034 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($17,534). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Dover-Sherborn Gridiron Club Inc does
Mission
Our goal is to strive for our players' academic and athletic excellence by promoting team unity and sportsmanship
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The gridiron club raises money to support our student-athletes and coaches at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Thus, the gridiron club supports the football program in several ways: by helping it meet its operational needs, such as providing compensation for coaches, scouts, and film software. By helping it meet its capital needs, including equipment, in areas that are not met by the d-s school athletic budget or by the d-s boosters. By providing football-specific publications, awards, and food that enhance the players' experience and build team spirit. By advocating for the football program with the administration and wider community. By providing whatever else the gridiron club feels is beneficial for the football program as needs arise.
$41,726 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,726.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $48k to $39k (−19%).
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.
58% of DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $5k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB 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
DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
60% 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 DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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
60% of DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB 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 $12k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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.
Against its field
DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB INC's revenue fell 56% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB 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
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB INC?
- DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,034 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($17,534). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $29,034 in grants to DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $17,534 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB 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 4 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