Massachusetts · Nonprofit
INCE FOUNDATION INC
INCE FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($56,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $144k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $86k
- Net assets
- $760k
What Ince Foundation Inc does
Mission
Ince foundation, inc. Funds awards for best student papers, travel awards, scholarships, and projects following review and recommendation by the institute of noise control engineering of the usa (ince-usa). The foundation co-sponsors workshops and symposia as follow-up to the 2010 national academy of engineering consensus report "technology for a quieter america".
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Awards and medals funded by the ince foundation during 2025 are:* ince/usa student paper and classic paper awards were awarded to six students and presented during noise-con 2025 conference.* martin hischorn/graduate student project award was funded and presented at noise-con 2025.* eighteen hallberg foundation travel awards to noise-con 2025 were funded.* the ince-usa scholarship was awarded in 2025.
$28,813 spentof which $28,600 as grants67% of program spendingAs part of its technology for a quieter america (tqa) program, the ince foundation funded: * a report was prepared and printed in 2025 for the 2024 two-day tqa virtual workshop "urban noise: impact and control."* the ince foundation co-sponsored a two-day in-person workshop "disruptive and blue-sky ideas for noise control." the workshop was hosted by the national academy of engineering on november 3-4, 2025. * copies of all previous tqa workshop reports are available on-line at no cost at https://www.inceusa.org/publications/technical-reports/.
$14,104 spent33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $42,917.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $666k to $760k (+14%).
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.
8% of INCE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $55k → $5k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 INCE 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
INCE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
65% 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 INCE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 91% · 2021 55% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
65% of INCE FOUNDATION INC'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
INCE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INCE FOUNDATION 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
32%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INCE FOUNDATION INC: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds INCE FOUNDATION INC?
- INCE FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($56,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INCE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $86,000 in grants to INCE FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INCE FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $56,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INCE FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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