How many funders does GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY have?

IRS filings report 3 grantmakers giving $100,000 in grants to GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.

Who is the largest funder of GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY?

Mary Alice Arakelian Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.

How can an organization like GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY 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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GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY

GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY (Massachusetts) is funded by 3 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $100,000 in grants to it, the largest being Mary Alice Arakelian Foundation ($70,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$384k

Revenue FY2024

Funders on record

$100k

Grants received

$1.5M

Net assets

3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%

01The organization over time

The organization over time

Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude.

20182024

Revenue (389)Expenses (128)Net assets (133)

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

The base broadened — 1 funders to 2 as grant income moved $5k → $7k.

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'20

'21

'22

'23

'25

total

Mary Alice Arakelian Foundation

$70k

Institution for Savings in Newburyport &

$20k

Newburyport Bank Charitable Foundation Inc

$10k

funders

From the IRS filings of GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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

70%

largest funder

100%

top three

effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 68% · 2022 77% · 2023 69% · 2025 71% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY is locally rooted: 100% of its grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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

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’25

Massachusetts out of state home

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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 374 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 GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY

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

Female Charitable Association68%Grand Circle Foundation Inc67%The Harold Grinspoon Charitable66%The Guild for Human Services Inc66%RSC Foundation Inc64%Old Ladies Home Society Inc64%Catholic Charities of the Diocese Of64%Granite Gives Back Inc63%

Nationally

Scots' Charitable Society74%The Federated Charities Corporation73%Gss Foundation Inc72%Gsf Foundation72%The General Health Foundation71%Gandhian Society Inc71%The Bg Charitable Foundation71%Gbh Foundation Trust70%

04Profile & governance

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

Questions and answers

Who funds GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY?: GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY (Massachusetts) is funded by 3 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $100,000 in grants to it, the largest being Mary Alice Arakelian Foundation ($70,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY have?: IRS filings report 3 grantmakers giving $100,000 in grants to GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY?: Mary Alice Arakelian Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY 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.

Every figure is 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 3funders 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. view filing

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