Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS FOUNDATION INC
NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,860 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($23,860). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $140k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $202k
What Norwell High School Boosters Foundation Inc does
Mission
The norwell high school booster club needs you! The nhs boosters is a non-profit, parent-driven volunteer organization dedicated to supporting all norwell high school teams. The booster club is here to assist and support our athletes and coaches with this enormous effort. 100% of the funds raised go toward supporting our athletes with scholarships, training, coaching and equipment. Our organization and fundraising efforts support all boys and girls' sports teams equally with purchases that strengthen current and future programs.what has the booster club done for our athletes and athletic community? Good question! It supports and recognizes the efforts of our teams and athletes ~ provides much needed equipment to our teams and athletes ~ provides funding for additional coaching ~ funds waiver fees for students to play sports ~ provides scholarships for graduating seniors ~ sponsors community events such as homecoming, the bonfire, the south shore half marathon as well as a variety
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To assist in promoting, stimulating and maintaining interest in and assistance to the norwell high school athletic department and other extra-curricular programs.
$53,247 spentof which $36,494 as grants$14,716 earned by the program100% of program spendingTo provide scholarships for norwell high school graduates for post secondary education.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $53,247.
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.
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 $118k to $202k (+72%).
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.
27% of NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $5k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS 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
NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
92% 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 NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 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
92% of NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS 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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k 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
NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS 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
97% 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 NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS 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 NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS FOUNDATION INC?
- NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,860 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($23,860). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,860 in grants to NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $23,860 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS 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 2017–2025), 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