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FRIENDS OF OAK BLUFFS INC

FRIENDS OF OAK BLUFFS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,600 to it, the largest being FIDUCIARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA FIDUCIARY TRUST CHARITABLE ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$5k
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
$6k
Grants received
$38k
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 55%

Against its field

FRIENDS OF OAK BLUFFS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,351 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin74% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−15% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,351 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 -31 ($-2825) Expenses 100 ($6k) Net assets 100 ($29k)2020 Revenue 100 ($9k) Expenses 101 ($6k) Net assets 91 ($26k)2022 Revenue 197 ($18k) Expenses 167 ($11k) Net assets 94 ($27k)2023 Revenue 142 ($13k) Expenses 91 ($6k) Net assets 120 ($35k)2024 Revenue 53 ($5k) Expenses 20 ($1k) Net assets 132 ($38k)
20182020202220232024
Revenue (53)Expenses (20)Net assets (132)Peer revenue range

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
2020
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FRIENDS OF OAK BLUFFS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,189 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
18
$3k
20
$7k
22
$7k
23
$4k
24
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $600.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)89% 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 OAK BLUFFS 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 OAK BLUFFS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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

89% 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 OAK BLUFFS INC.

89%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 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

89% of FRIENDS OF OAK BLUFFS 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 $600 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like FRIENDS OF OAK BLUFFS INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & 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.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF OAK BLUFFS 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 OAK BLUFFS INC?
FRIENDS OF OAK BLUFFS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,600 to it, the largest being FIDUCIARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA FIDUCIARY TRUST CHARITABLE ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF OAK BLUFFS INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,600 in grants to FRIENDS OF OAK BLUFFS INC.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF OAK BLUFFS INC?
FIDUCIARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA FIDUCIARY TRUST CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF OAK BLUFFS 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing