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GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC

GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,004,432 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($718,225). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$2.0M
Revenue FY2025
13
Funders on record
$1.0M
Grants received
$5.9M
Net assets
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($4.1M)2018 Revenue 47 ($1.4M) Expenses 102 ($1.1M) Net assets 103 ($4.3M)2019 Revenue 52 ($1.5M) Expenses 114 ($1.2M) Net assets 109 ($4.5M)2020 Revenue 40 ($1.2M) Expenses 107 ($1.2M) Net assets 108 ($4.5M)2021 Revenue 48 ($1.4M) Expenses 111 ($1.2M) Net assets 117 ($4.8M)2022 Revenue 74 ($2.2M) Expenses 139 ($1.5M) Net assets 125 ($5.2M)2023 Revenue 63 ($1.9M) Expenses 150 ($1.6M) Net assets 132 ($5.4M)2024 Revenue 71 ($2.1M) Expenses 175 ($1.9M) Net assets 139 ($5.7M)2025 Revenue 68 ($2.0M) Expenses 169 ($1.8M) Net assets 143 ($5.9M)
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Revenue (68)Expenses (169)Net assets (143)

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 13% · 2022 21% · 2023 10% · 2024 7% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.9M
17
$284k
18
$289k
19
$22k
20
$221k
21
$665k
22
$230k
23
$178k
24
$167k
25
8.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $440k → $39k.

7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)82% 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 GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC’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

GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

82% 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 GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC.

72%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 44% · 2019 71% · 2020 53% · 2021 43% · 2022 80% · 2023 83%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

45% of GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

82% of GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $177k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states.

IL
NY
MA
NC
FL

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. $828k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.

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.

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 GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC

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

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 25%Fundraising 4%

Governance

26
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC?
GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,004,432 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($718,225). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,004,432 in grants to GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $718,225 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC 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.

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 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing