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PROPRIETORS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY

PROPRIETORS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,637,601 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY ($9,637,601). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$26M
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$9.6M
Grants received
$309M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($10M) Net assets 100 ($194M)2018 Revenue 193 ($21M) Expenses 113 ($12M) Net assets 108 ($210M)2019 Revenue 143 ($16M) Expenses 111 ($11M) Net assets 109 ($211M)2020 Revenue 135 ($15M) Expenses 119 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($194M)2021 Revenue 494 ($54M) Expenses 120 ($12M) Net assets 148 ($288M)2022 Revenue 163 ($18M) Expenses 126 ($13M) Net assets 157 ($305M)2023 Revenue 134 ($15M) Expenses 164 ($17M) Net assets 146 ($285M)2024 Revenue 171 ($19M) Expenses 180 ($18M) Net assets 156 ($304M)2025 Revenue 241 ($26M) Expenses 189 ($19M) Net assets 159 ($309M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (241)Expenses (189)Net assets (159)

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$678k
17
$9.5M
18
$4.2M
19
$2.6M
20
$42M
21
$5.0M
22
$2.2M
23
$278k
24
$6.9M
25
0.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1.6M → $2.3M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of PROPRIETORS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of PROPRIETORS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

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

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

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.

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 PROPRIETORS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY

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.

Governance

21
board members
95%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROPRIETORS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY: 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 PROPRIETORS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY?
PROPRIETORS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,637,601 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY ($9,637,601). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROPRIETORS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,637,601 in grants to PROPRIETORS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROPRIETORS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY?
FRIENDS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY is the largest funder on record, with $9,637,601 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROPRIETORS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY 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 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing