Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC
GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,518 to it, the largest being BILLY ANDRADE-BRAD FAXON CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN INC ($42,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $348k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $241k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Greater Attleboro Area Council for Children Inc does
Mission
The organization's primary mission is to promote the well-being of children and families in need in the greater attleboro area by providing access to essential resources, responsive support services, and programs that brighten lives and build hope. The organization is a primarily all-volunteer organization that raises funds to provide programs and services to children and massachusetts families in 7 surrounding communities. The organization serves as advocates for children; where there is a need for service, the organization attempts to find one.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
During the fiscal year ended august 31, 2025, the nicky o afterschool program was started to honor the creative spirit and compassion of nicky by providing free, enriching opportunities for local children.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Christmas is for kids is a program that provides toys and clothing for economically disadvantaged families in the community during the holidays to ensure that all have a happy holiday. It is a gift giving program that is funded through monetary donations directly to the organization as well as gifts donated from the community itself.
$272,880 spent96% of program spendingBackpacks is a program developed to provide backpacks and supplies to economically disadvantaged children in the community during the school year and summer months.
$5,224 spent2% of program spendingDaycare assistance is a program developed to provide assistance for daycare to economically disadvantaged families residing in area communities.
$3,880 spent1% of program spendingNicky o is a program developed to raise funds and provide scholarships in the music and performing arts to talented young musicians and performers. Donated funds are used for, but not limited to, the financing of music lessons and the rental or purchase of musical instruments. During fiscal year 2024-2025, the nicky o afterschool program was started to honor the creative spirit and compassion of nicky by providing free, enriching opportunities for local children.
$2,418 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $284,402.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $1.7M (+46%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 4% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Dwayne Simmons
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $4k → $385.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. 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
GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 40% · 2019 55% · 2020 32% · 2021 27% · 2022 55% · 2023 77% — 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
56% of GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
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
100% of GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC?
- GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,518 to it, the largest being BILLY ANDRADE-BRAD FAXON CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN INC ($42,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $240,518 in grants to GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC?
- BILLY ANDRADE-BRAD FAXON CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN INC is the largest funder on record, with $42,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN 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 19 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