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IPSWICH DINNER BELL INC

IPSWICH DINNER BELL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS IN NEWBURYPORT & ITS VICINITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$34k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$45k
Net assets
$24k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Ipswich Dinner Bell Inc does

Mission

Mission is to run a community food kitchen

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Each week the organization feeds approximately 150-200community members. The meals are prepared and servedby volunteers.

    $35,742 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,742.

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 ($26k) Expenses 100 ($22k) Net assets 100 ($13k)2018 Revenue 96 ($25k) Expenses 128 ($28k) Net assets 76 ($10k)2019 Revenue 99 ($26k) Expenses 111 ($24k) Net assets 87 ($11k)2020 Revenue 160 ($42k) Expenses 155 ($34k) Net assets 147 ($19k)2021 Revenue 138 ($36k) Expenses 123 ($27k) Net assets 217 ($28k)2022 Revenue 152 ($40k) Expenses 149 ($33k) Net assets 270 ($34k)2023 Revenue 127 ($33k) Expenses 161 ($35k) Net assets 252 ($32k)2024 Revenue 102 ($27k) Expenses 145 ($32k) Net assets 210 ($27k)2025 Revenue 129 ($34k) Expenses 163 ($36k) Net assets 193 ($24k)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (163)Net assets (193)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $19k to $28k (+48%).

$13k
$10k
$11k
$19k
$28k
$34k
$32k
$27k
$24k
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Total assets

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of IPSWICH DINNER BELL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,734 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
−$3k
’18
$1k
’19
$8k
’20
$9k
’21
$7k
’22
−$2k
’23
−$5k
’24
−$2k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $5k.

From the IRS filings of IPSWICH DINNER BELL 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.

Where its funders are

100% of IPSWICH DINNER BELL INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

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. 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

IPSWICH DINNER BELL INC has grown faster than half of the 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like IPSWICH DINNER BELL 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

05Profile & governance

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

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IPSWICH DINNER BELL 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 IPSWICH DINNER BELL INC?
IPSWICH DINNER BELL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS IN NEWBURYPORT & ITS VICINITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IPSWICH DINNER BELL INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $45,000 in grants to IPSWICH DINNER BELL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IPSWICH DINNER BELL INC?
INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS IN NEWBURYPORT & ITS VICINITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IPSWICH DINNER BELL 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 1 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