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FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC

FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,119,153 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC ($233,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$527k
Revenue FY2024
33
Funders on record
$1.1M
Grants received
$958k
Net assets
23/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%

Against its field

FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,260 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Months of reserve22.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($340k) Expenses 100 ($356k) Net assets 100 ($216k)2020 Revenue 124 ($422k) Expenses 84 ($299k) Net assets 157 ($339k)2021 Revenue 164 ($556k) Expenses 98 ($350k) Net assets 253 ($546k)2022 Revenue 149 ($506k) Expenses 112 ($398k) Net assets 303 ($654k)2023 Revenue 175 ($593k) Expenses 120 ($425k) Net assets 429 ($926k)2024 Revenue 155 ($527k) Expenses 139 ($494k) Net assets 444 ($958k)
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Revenue (155)Expenses (139)Net assets (444)Peer revenue range

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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2020
2021
2022
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 17% · 2021 9% · 2022 1% · 2023 13% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

67% of FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,616 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
19
$123k
20
$207k
21
$109k
22
$167k
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$32k
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22
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $162k → $192k.

5 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)14% 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 FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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

FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC.

21%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 44% · 2019 44% · 2020 27% · 2021 28% · 2022 29% · 2023 26%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

53% of FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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

72% of FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
NJ
CT
DE
NM
TX

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. $155k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 33 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $309k on record.

State$309k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$309k
  • (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$100

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 18%Fundraising 21%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited 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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC?
FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,119,153 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC ($233,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,119,153 in grants to FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC?
BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $233,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 33funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing