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Friends of Marlborough Seniors Inc

Friends of Marlborough Seniors Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,634 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($134,334). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$23k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$138k
Net assets
$97k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 75%
01What it does

What Friends of Marlborough Seniors Inc does

Mission

We provide services to the senior citizens of Marlborough, MA

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Some of the services we provide are transportation,medical, wellness, educational, and recreationalprograms to the seniors of Marlborough.

    $34,650 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,650.

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 ($53k) Expenses 100 ($72k) Net assets 100 ($132k)2018 Revenue 101 ($53k) Expenses 88 ($63k) Net assets 93 ($123k)2019 Revenue 118 ($63k) Expenses 136 ($97k) Net assets 66 ($88k)2020 Revenue 89 ($47k) Expenses 66 ($47k) Net assets 65 ($86k)2021 Revenue 87 ($46k) Expenses 35 ($25k) Net assets 81 ($107k)2022 Revenue 25 ($13k) Expenses 32 ($23k) Net assets 74 ($97k)2023 Revenue 38 ($20k) Expenses 33 ($23k) Net assets 71 ($94k)2024 Revenue 44 ($23k) Expenses 29 ($21k) Net assets 73 ($97k)
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Revenue (44)Expenses (29)Net assets (73)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 2018 to 2019, from $123k to $88k (−28%).

$132k
$123k
$88k
$98k
$111k
$100k
$96k
$99k
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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.

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2018
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2021
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

8% of Friends of Marlborough Seniors Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$19k
’17
−$10k
’18
−$35k
’19
−$456
’20
$21k
’21
−$10k
’22
−$3k
’23
$2k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $33k → $34k.

From the IRS filings of Friends of Marlborough Seniors 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 Marlborough Seniors Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 48% · 2020 100% · 2021 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 Marlborough Seniors Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Friends of Marlborough Seniors Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like Friends of Marlborough Seniors 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

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Friends of Marlborough Seniors Inc?
Friends of Marlborough Seniors Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,634 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($134,334). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Friends of Marlborough Seniors Inc have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $137,634 in grants to Friends of Marlborough Seniors Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of Marlborough Seniors Inc?
CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) is the largest funder on record, with $134,334 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of Marlborough Seniors 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 4 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