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FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC

FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $549,300 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($138,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$549k
Net assets
$1.0M
4/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Friends of Chilmark Pre-School Inc does

Mission

To support the education of pre-school children in west tisbury, chilmark, and aquinnah.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization's mission is to provide pre-school education to children under five years of age.

    $18,482 spentof which $1,243 as grants$188,614 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,482.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($179k) Expenses 100 ($173k) Net assets 100 ($44k)2018 Revenue 94 ($168k) Expenses 85 ($147k) Net assets 147 ($65k)2019 Revenue 93 ($167k) Expenses 91 ($157k) Net assets 168 ($75k)2020 Revenue 65 ($117k) Expenses 97 ($167k) Net assets 54 ($24k)2021 Revenue 108 ($194k) Expenses 99 ($172k) Net assets 104 ($46k)2022 Revenue 116 ($208k) Expenses 110 ($189k) Net assets 198 ($88k)2023 Revenue 130 ($232k) Expenses 132 ($227k) Net assets 209 ($92k)2024 Revenue 660 ($1.2M) Expenses 168 ($291k) Net assets 2327 ($1.0M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (660)Expenses (168)Net assets (2327)Peer revenue range

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 $95k to $1.0M (+985%).

$49k
$69k
$78k
$50k
$72k
$90k
$95k
$1.0M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 1% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

75% of FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
$21k
’18
$9k
’19
−$51k
’20
$22k
’21
$19k
’22
$5k
’23
$892k
’24
39
months of
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.

202220232024
Listed888
Joined·+0+1
No longer listed·01
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $2k.

5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL 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 CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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

60% 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 CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC.

25%
largest funder
68%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 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

60% of FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL 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 $221k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 10 states.

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
DE
KS
FL

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

’20
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $329k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin75% · top quartile
Months of reserve39.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)31% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

6% of spending goes to programs.

Program 6%Management 91%Fundraising 3%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

67%

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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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC?
FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $549,300 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($138,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $549,300 in grants to FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $138,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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