Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices Inc
Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,700 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices Inc does
Mission
We uplift the community through planned social cultural and business empowerment events
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Holiday Fund was created to support families in the Merrimack Valley during the uncertain times of rising costs after the COVID-19 pandemic reduce financial insecurity and bring holiday cheer. In 2025 we supported 116 economically disadvantaged families in the community.
$16,780 spent94% of program spendingIn 2025 we cohosted the 5th Annual Juneteenth Celebration in Andover bringing together community members to learn about the history of Juneteenth and connect over food music and entertainment.
$1,000 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,780.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $6k to $10k (+69%).
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.
100% of Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Elizabeth Walther-Grant
Executive Director
Board chair
Bria Muwanguzi
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $6k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices 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
Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
66% of Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices 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. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices 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 Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices Inc?
- Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,700 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $46,700 in grants to Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices Inc?
- CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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