Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING
FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,000 to it, the largest being ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING's revenue fell 62% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,813 human services nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliatesshared funderslocal
- Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont Incportfolio match
- Cape and Islands United Way Incshared funderslocal
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.
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.
89% of FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $6k.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING’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
FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
92% 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 FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 79% · 2019 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
100% of FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
- Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliatesshared funderslocalMA · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 52 organizations near you
- Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cape and Islands United Way Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 36 organizations near you
- Derry Wolverine Dream Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sweet Grass Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hometown Bank Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Easton Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Foodbankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert Fleming & Jane Howe Patrick Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING: 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 FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING?
- FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,000 to it, the largest being ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $19,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING?
- ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE COUNCIL ON AGING 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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