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GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC

GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,376 to it, the largest being AMELIA PEABODY CHARITABLE FUND TRUST ($65,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$340k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$180k
Net assets
$620k
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation Inc does

Mission

To fully restore the gloucester meetinghouse building, an architectural masterpiece built for the first universalist church in america in 1806, to the highest preservation and clean-energy standards so that it may continue to serve our community for centuries to come.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation sponsored a monthly concert and lecture series to provide funding to support the preservation and improvement of the historic 1806 meetinghouse. The foundation also successfully spun-off its climate initiative program to a newly- formed nonprofit organization, towngreen, inc.

    $81,474 spent$339,725 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $81,474.

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 ($317k) Expenses 100 ($492k) Net assets 100 ($53k)2018 Revenue 75 ($238k) Expenses 29 ($144k) Net assets 276 ($147k)2019 Revenue 93 ($296k) Expenses 21 ($105k) Net assets 636 ($338k)2020 Revenue 22 ($71k) Expenses 21 ($102k) Net assets 531 ($282k)2021 Revenue 46 ($147k) Expenses 30 ($148k) Net assets 529 ($281k)2022 Revenue 80 ($252k) Expenses 23 ($112k) Net assets 766 ($407k)2023 Revenue 24 ($78k) Expenses 21 ($102k) Net assets 719 ($383k)2024 Revenue 107 ($340k) Expenses 21 ($102k) Net assets 1165 ($620k)
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Revenue (107)Expenses (21)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 $437k to $714k (+63%).

$81k
$156k
$344k
$340k
$397k
$466k
$437k
$714k
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

76% of GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 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.

−$174k
’17
$94k
’18
$191k
’19
−$31k
’20
−$1k
’21
$140k
’22
−$25k
’23
$237k
’24
5.5
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20172018201920222024
Listed71111118
Joined·+5+0··
No longer listed·10··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $115k → $25k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION 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

GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

58% 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 GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC.

36%
largest funder
84%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2020 85% · 2021 39% · 2022 100% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

40% of GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

88% of GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
DC
TX

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

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’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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

GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin70% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.

State$15k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$15k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 18%Fundraising 3%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC?
GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,376 to it, the largest being AMELIA PEABODY CHARITABLE FUND TRUST ($65,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $180,376 in grants to GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC?
AMELIA PEABODY CHARITABLE FUND TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
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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 11 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