Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY
FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,886 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($15,570). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,605 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
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.
- DCU for Kidsshared fundersportfolio match
- Rogers Family Foundationshared funderslocal
- Salem Community Benefit Incportfolio match
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.
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.
0% of FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $10k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY’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
FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 95% · 2020 73% · 2021 59% · 2022 50% · 2023 62% — 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
40% of FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
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
73% of FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $285 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.
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 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- DCU for Kidsshared fundersportfolio matchMA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Rogers Family Foundationshared funderslocalMA · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 78 organizations near you
- Salem Community Benefit Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Main Street Group Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alternatives for Youth Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trustees of the Ayer Homeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Saab Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marlborough Brigham Family Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The TCO Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yawkey Foundation IIshared fundersMA · backs 70 organizations that share your funders
- The 1434 Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY: 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.
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 FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY?
- FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,886 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($15,570). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $45,886 in grants to FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY?
- BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,570 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 10funders 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