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FOREST HILLS EDUCATIONAL TRUST

FOREST HILLS EDUCATIONAL TRUST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $200 to it, the largest being HAVEN TRUST ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$6k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$200
Net assets
$144k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Forest Hills Educational Trust does

Mission

To promote the appreciation and preservation of the historic artifacts created by or related to persons interred in forest hills cemetery.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To promote the appreciation and preservation of the historic artifacts created by or related to persons interred in forest hills cemetery by allowing the general public and the organization's members to participate in educational programs at the cemetery which promote the appreciation and preservation of the artifacts.

    $951 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $951.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($13k) Expenses 100 ($45k) Net assets 100 ($185k)2018 Revenue 157 ($20k) Expenses 44 ($20k) Net assets 92 ($170k)2019 Revenue 776 ($97k) Expenses 230 ($104k) Net assets 93 ($171k)2020 Revenue 46 ($6k) Expenses 34 ($15k) Net assets 91 ($169k)2021 Revenue 48 ($6k) Expenses 29 ($13k) Net assets 89 ($165k)2022 Revenue 20 ($2k) Expenses 26 ($12k) Net assets 80 ($147k)2023 Revenue 15 ($2k) Expenses 20 ($9k) Net assets 79 ($145k)2024 Revenue 49 ($6k) Expenses 19 ($9k) Net assets 78 ($144k)
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Revenue (49)Expenses (19)Net assets (78)

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 $219k to $170k (−22%).

$219k
$170k
$181k
$169k
$174k
$157k
$153k
$152k
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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.

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2018
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2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

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

−$33k
’17
−$112
’18
−$6k
’19
−$10k
’20
−$7k
’21
−$9k
’22
−$7k
’23
−$3k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $100.

From the IRS filings of FOREST HILLS EDUCATIONAL TRUST’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

FOREST HILLS EDUCATIONAL TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 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

FOREST HILLS EDUCATIONAL TRUST draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.

ME
MA

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

’20
’22
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like FOREST HILLS EDUCATIONAL TRUST

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.

Public support

74%

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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOREST HILLS EDUCATIONAL TRUST: 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 FOREST HILLS EDUCATIONAL TRUST?
FOREST HILLS EDUCATIONAL TRUST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $200 to it, the largest being HAVEN TRUST ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOREST HILLS EDUCATIONAL TRUST have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $200 in grants to FOREST HILLS EDUCATIONAL TRUST.
Who is the largest funder of FOREST HILLS EDUCATIONAL TRUST?
HAVEN TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOREST HILLS EDUCATIONAL TRUST 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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