Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF IPSWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS INC
FRIENDS OF IPSWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,692 to it, the largest being INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS IN NEWBURYPORT & ITS VICINITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($27,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $96k
What Friends of Ipswich Elementary Schools Inc does
Mission
Support ipswich elementary schools
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To support the ipswich elementary schools by providing programs and supplies which are not funded by the schools' budgets including renovating a school playground. All children in grades pre-k-5 are benefited.
$44,703 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,703.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $125k to $92k (−26%).
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.
99% of FRIENDS OF IPSWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $8k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 IPSWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS 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 IPSWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
93% of FRIENDS OF IPSWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF IPSWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF IPSWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS 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.
Public support
97%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF IPSWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS INC?
- FRIENDS OF IPSWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,692 to it, the largest being INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS IN NEWBURYPORT & ITS VICINITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($27,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF IPSWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $31,692 in grants to FRIENDS OF IPSWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF IPSWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS INC?
- INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS IN NEWBURYPORT & ITS VICINITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $27,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF IPSWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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