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Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,455,161 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($414,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$585k
Revenue FY2024
23
Funders on record
$1.5M
Grants received
$561k
Net assets
17/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 74%

Against its field

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc is better cushioned than half of the 4,260 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · below the median
Months of reserve8.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($181k) Expenses 100 ($180k) Net assets 100 ($104k)2018 Revenue 101 ($182k) Expenses 116 ($210k) Net assets 74 ($77k)2019 Revenue 149 ($269k) Expenses 117 ($211k) Net assets 129 ($134k)2020 Revenue 184 ($333k) Expenses 119 ($215k) Net assets 242 ($252k)2021 Revenue 452 ($816k) Expenses 173 ($313k) Net assets 725 ($755k)2022 Revenue 211 ($381k) Expenses 241 ($435k) Net assets 673 ($701k)2023 Revenue 200 ($362k) Expenses 263 ($474k) Net assets 565 ($589k)2024 Revenue 324 ($585k) Expenses 340 ($612k) Net assets 539 ($561k)
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Revenue (324)Expenses (340)Net assets (539)Peer revenue range

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: 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,616 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.

$259
17
$27k
18
$57k
19
$118k
20
$503k
21
$54k
22
$113k
23
$28k
24
8.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $6k → $224k.

9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)74% 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 Massachusetts Rivers Alliance 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

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

74% 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 Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc.

28%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 28% · 2021 74% · 2022 54% · 2023 45%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

36% of Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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

74% of Massachusetts Rivers Alliance 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 $373k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 7 states.

NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
VA
DC

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

20
21
22
23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

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. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9k on record.

State$9k
24
25
Top programs
  • (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$9k

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.

Organizations like Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc

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

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 23%Fundraising 17%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

70%

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 Massachusetts Rivers Alliance 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 Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc?
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,455,161 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($414,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,455,161 in grants to Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $414,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Massachusetts Rivers Alliance 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23funders 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