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FRIENDS OF LINCOLN SUDBURY HOCKEY

FRIENDS OF LINCOLN SUDBURY HOCKEY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $772 to it, the largest being THE HERB CHAMBERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$56k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$772
Net assets
$62k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Friends of Lincoln Sudbury Hockey does

Mission

Provide funding and support for a high school youth hockey program through training, equipment, leadership, administrative support, and guidance in community service outreach.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provide funding and support for a high school youth hockey program through training, equipment, leadership, administrative support, and guidance in community service outreach.

    $63,545 spentof which $14,500 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $63,545.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($114k) Expenses 100 ($104k) Net assets 100 ($99k)2019 Revenue 76 ($87k) Expenses 81 ($85k) Net assets 99 ($98k)2020 Revenue 47 ($53k) Expenses 59 ($61k) Net assets 91 ($90k)2023 Revenue 68 ($78k) Expenses 66 ($69k) Net assets 75 ($74k)2024 Revenue 66 ($76k) Expenses 71 ($74k) Net assets 77 ($76k)2025 Revenue 49 ($56k) Expenses 66 ($69k) Net assets 63 ($62k)
201820192020202320242025
Revenue (49)Expenses (66)Net assets (63)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $76k to $62k (−18%).

$99k
$98k
$90k
$74k
$76k
$62k
201820192020202320242025
Total assets

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.

2018
2019
2020
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

14% of FRIENDS OF LINCOLN SUDBURY HOCKEY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’18
$2k
’19
−$8k
’20
$9k
’23
$2k
’24
−$13k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $16.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 LINCOLN SUDBURY HOCKEY’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 LINCOLN SUDBURY HOCKEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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

65%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 100% · 2022 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

FRIENDS OF LINCOLN SUDBURY HOCKEY draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.

MA
CT

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

’18
’20
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF LINCOLN SUDBURY HOCKEY's revenue fell 51% between 2018 and 2025.

Operating margin−24% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

98%

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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF LINCOLN SUDBURY HOCKEY: 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 LINCOLN SUDBURY HOCKEY?
FRIENDS OF LINCOLN SUDBURY HOCKEY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $772 to it, the largest being THE HERB CHAMBERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF LINCOLN SUDBURY HOCKEY have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $772 in grants to FRIENDS OF LINCOLN SUDBURY HOCKEY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LINCOLN SUDBURY HOCKEY?
THE HERB CHAMBERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LINCOLN SUDBURY HOCKEY 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 2018–2025), 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