Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER
MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,000 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($282,000). 1 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.
Against its field
MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,426 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundationshared funderslocal
- Merrick Foundation Incportfolio match
- Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 59% · 2022 56% · 2023 56% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $150k → $232k.
1 of 2 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 MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER’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 PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
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 MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 57% — 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.
Where its funders are
74% of MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER'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 $100k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $282k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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.
- Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundationshared funderslocalMA · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 60 organizations near you
- Merrick Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southern Alleghenies Planning and Development Comissionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glens Falls Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The H P and Anne S Hunnicutt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Howard & Bess Chapman Charitable Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Adirondack Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brattleboro Development Credit Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gerry Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northern Forest Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER: 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.
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 MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER?
- MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,000 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($282,000). 1 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 MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $382,000 in grants to MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER?
- ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $282,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER 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 2funders 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