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Friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard Inc

Friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,165 to it, the largest being MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED & AFFILIATES GROUP RETURN ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$12k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$9k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard Inc does

Mission

Preservation of Charlestown Navy Yard

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Summer Solstice, Jazz Festival and Adaptive Sailing events to raise public awareness of and support the preservation of the Charlestown Navy Yard, a national historial landmark.

    $10,508 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Scholarships/Donations

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Sailing Programs

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,508.

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 ($21k) Expenses 100 ($11k) Net assets 100 ($20k)2018 Revenue 85 ($18k) Expenses 109 ($12k) Net assets 128 ($26k)2020 Revenue 106 ($22k) Expenses 188 ($21k) Net assets 94 ($19k)2021 Revenue 53 ($11k) Expenses 119 ($13k) Net assets 83 ($16k)2022 Revenue 113 ($24k) Expenses 134 ($15k) Net assets 127 ($25k)2023 Revenue 79 ($16k) Expenses 167 ($19k) Net assets 116 ($23k)2024 Revenue 73 ($15k) Expenses 207 ($23k) Net assets 76 ($15k)2025 Revenue 57 ($12k) Expenses 161 ($18k) Net assets 46 ($9k)
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Revenue (57)Expenses (161)Net assets (46)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 2021 to 2022, from $16k to $25k (+53%).

$20k
$26k
$19k
$16k
$25k
$23k
$15k
$9k
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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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
$6k
’18
$1k
’20
−$2k
’21
$9k
’22
−$2k
’23
−$8k
’24
−$6k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Michael W Parker

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $30 → $110.

From the IRS filings of Friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard 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 the Charlestown Navy Yard 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% 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 the Charlestown Navy Yard Inc.

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

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 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

100% of Friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

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

’17
’23
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 the Charlestown Navy Yard Inc's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−49% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard Inc?
Friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,165 to it, the largest being MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED & AFFILIATES GROUP RETURN ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard Inc have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,165 in grants to Friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard Inc?
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED & AFFILIATES GROUP RETURN is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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