Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER INC
FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,907 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($125,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $469k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $421k
- Net assets
- $288k
What Friends of Bass River Inc does
Mission
Our mission, through active monitoring, collaboration with local, state & federal entities, and direct restoration management, is to help preserve and protect bass rivers delicate ecosystem.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Collaborate: through our partnerships with the towns of yarmouth and dennis, the yarmouth water resources advisory committee, and the former dhy partnership we are moving the needle on a comprehensive wastewater plan that is critical to the health of the river.
$100,027 spent29% of program spendingRestore: the upper bass river restoration project will transform over 57 acres of abandoned cranberry bogs back to wetlands. Culvert replacement and restoration engineering will create an improved habitat and access for anadromous species, improve coastal resiliency, and create a significant carbon sink to control nitrogen loading in this heavily populated area.
$222,433 spent$256,317 earned by the program65% of program spendingEducate: friends of bass river works to educate all ages about topics pertinent to the health of the river - from early education programs in the dy school system to our seasonal water testing program with the stonehill college ecology department. We work to educate our supporters via down-to-earth articles about estuary-related science in our newsletters & via social media.
$20,419 spent$350 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $342,879.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $112k to $289k (+158%).
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.
45% of FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $4k → $167k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER 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
FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 BASS RIVER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 71% · 2022 38% · 2023 58% — 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
50% of FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
53% of FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER 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 $198k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $223k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $222k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$222k
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 FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER 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.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER 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 FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER INC?
- FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,907 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($125,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $420,907 in grants to FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing