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PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC

PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $704,334 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($172,277). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$122k
Revenue FY2024
20
Funders on record
$704k
Grants received
$197k
Net assets
14/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 94%

Against its field

PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC has grown faster than half of the 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−109% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,529 crime & legal 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 ($48k) Expenses 100 ($207k) Net assets 100 ($612k)2018 Revenue 86 ($42k) Expenses 72 ($150k) Net assets 82 ($504k)2019 Revenue 113 ($55k) Expenses 74 ($154k) Net assets 66 ($403k)2020 Revenue 163 ($79k) Expenses 67 ($139k) Net assets 56 ($340k)2021 Revenue 314 ($152k) Expenses 78 ($161k) Net assets 54 ($330k)2022 Revenue 868 ($420k) Expenses 175 ($362k) Net assets 63 ($388k)2023 Revenue 695 ($336k) Expenses 187 ($388k) Net assets 55 ($336k)2024 Revenue 251 ($122k) Expenses 123 ($254k) Net assets 32 ($197k)
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Revenue (251)Expenses (123)Net assets (32)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: 2022 70% · 2023 49% · 2024 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,767 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$159k
17
$108k
18
$100k
19
$61k
20
$9k
21
$58k
22
$52k
23
$133k
24
3.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $8k → $148k.

4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)34% 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 PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL 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

PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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

36% 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 PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC.

24%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 24% · 2022 27% · 2023 25%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

80% of PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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

53% of PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

ME
IL
NY
MA
CA
TX

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. $240k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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 20 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 PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

State$10k
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$10k

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 PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL 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

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 12%Fundraising 4%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL 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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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 PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC?
PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $704,334 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($172,277). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $704,334 in grants to PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $172,277 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL 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 20funders 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