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PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS OF CAPE AND ISLANDS INC

PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS OF CAPE AND ISLANDS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,980 to it, the largest being EDWARD BANGS KELLEY AND ELZA KELLEY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$86k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$22k
Net assets
$84k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Philanthropy Partners of Cape and Islands Inc does

Mission

Encourage charitable giving. Promote cooperation and foster a better understanding among development professionals and other interested in phylanthropy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The corporation is a non-profit, volunteer-led organization whose purpose is to encourage charitable giving, promote cooperation and to foster a better understanding among professional charitable giving planners, and the general filed of charitable giving.

    $88,466 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $88,466.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($68k) Expenses 100 ($67k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2019 Revenue 119 ($81k) Expenses 132 ($88k) Net assets 91 ($56k)2020 Revenue 52 ($35k) Expenses 61 ($41k) Net assets 82 ($50k)2021 Revenue 80 ($54k) Expenses 70 ($47k) Net assets 94 ($58k)2022 Revenue 130 ($89k) Expenses 114 ($76k) Net assets 114 ($70k)2023 Revenue 131 ($89k) Expenses 124 ($83k) Net assets 124 ($77k)2024 Revenue 150 ($102k) Expenses 139 ($92k) Net assets 140 ($86k)2025 Revenue 127 ($86k) Expenses 133 ($88k) Net assets 136 ($84k)
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Revenue (127)Expenses (133)Net assets (136)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $58k to $70k (+21%).

$62k
$56k
$54k
$58k
$70k
$77k
$86k
$84k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
−$7k
’19
−$6k
’20
$8k
’21
$12k
’22
$6k
’23
$9k
’24
−$2k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $2k → $1k.

From the IRS filings of PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS OF CAPE AND ISLANDS 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

PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS OF CAPE AND ISLANDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

45%
largest funder
99%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 95% — 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

99% of PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS OF CAPE AND ISLANDS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
PA

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS OF CAPE AND ISLANDS 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS OF CAPE AND ISLANDS INC?
PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS OF CAPE AND ISLANDS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,980 to it, the largest being EDWARD BANGS KELLEY AND ELZA KELLEY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS OF CAPE AND ISLANDS INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $21,980 in grants to PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS OF CAPE AND ISLANDS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS OF CAPE AND ISLANDS INC?
EDWARD BANGS KELLEY AND ELZA KELLEY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS OF CAPE AND ISLANDS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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