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Friends of Patton Homestead Inc

Friends of Patton Homestead Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,253 to it, the largest being LESLIE S & MARCIA C RAY FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$23k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$29k
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Friends of Patton Homestead Inc does

Mission

To support and preserve the historic Patton Homestead

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. This fisc al year was all about fundraising toward our goal We were not spending our resources in this fiscal year One week after this fiscal year ended we spent 25000 toward a pavilion at the Patton Hiomestead

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($5k) Expenses 100 ($3k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2020 Revenue 125 ($6k) Expenses 96 ($3k) Net assets 254 ($6k)2021 Revenue 202 ($10k) Expenses 50 ($1k) Net assets 620 ($15k)2022 Revenue 155 ($8k) Expenses 228 ($6k) Net assets 686 ($17k)2023 Revenue 44 ($2k) Expenses 199 ($6k) Net assets 554 ($14k)2024 Revenue 441 ($23k) Expenses 274 ($8k) Net assets 1165 ($29k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (441)Expenses (274)Net assets (1165)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 $14k to $29k (+111%).

$2k
$6k
$15k
$17k
$14k
$29k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

64% of Friends of Patton Homestead Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’19
$4k
’20
$9k
’21
$2k
’22
−$3k
’23
$15k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $28.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Patton Homestead 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 Patton Homestead Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

31%
largest funder
92%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 83% · 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

94% of Friends of Patton Homestead Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
PA

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. $53 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 Patton Homestead Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin66% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like Friends of Patton Homestead Inc

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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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Patton Homestead 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 Patton Homestead Inc?
Friends of Patton Homestead Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,253 to it, the largest being LESLIE S & MARCIA C RAY FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Friends of Patton Homestead Inc have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $3,253 in grants to Friends of Patton Homestead Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of Patton Homestead Inc?
LESLIE S & MARCIA C RAY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of Patton Homestead 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 5 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