Massachusetts · Nonprofit
QUIET COMMUNITIES INC
QUIET COMMUNITIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,015 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $430k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $272k
- Net assets
- $389k
What Quiet Communities Inc does
Mission
Quiet communities, inc is dedicated to helping communities reduce health and environmental harm from noise and pollution by providing research, education, outreach, and solutions and working collaboratively with communities, businesses, schools, and government agencies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Quiet Landcare program helps to transition landscape maintenance practices to low noise, zero emissions practices to protect the health of workers, children, the public, and the environment.
$56,938 spent$101,050 earned by the program35% of program spendingQuiet Coalition provides local communities with news, commentary, and advice on the science of noise and heath.
$5,564 spent$12,249 earned by the program3% of program spendingQuiet American Skies provides local communities with evidence-based resources to address the national public health problem of aviation noise pollution.
$38,474 spent24% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 38,473, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Quiet Empowerment was formed to help citizens engage with leaders in government to develop policies and programs that will bring about a quieter, cleaner world. With the help and guidance of its legal and scientific advisory councils, QCI is uniquely prepared to help communities do this and to connect with and learn from each other. Program Service Expenses 19,236, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Quiet Healthcare focuses on the acoustic environments of hospitals and other facilities. By providing research showing that a quieter environment is better for patient sleep quality, recovery, and health outcomes, and minimizes medical errors by staff. Program Service Expenses 3,215, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 The Quiet Restaurants program works to educate and engage businesses and the public in creating quieter restaurants that are accessible to all. Program Service Expenses 484, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 The Quiet Streets program brings stakeholders together to tackle excessive vehicle noise and pollution.
$61,408 spent38% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $162,384.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $148k to $389k (+163%).
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.
71% of QUIET COMMUNITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $44 → $21k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 QUIET COMMUNITIES 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
QUIET COMMUNITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 QUIET COMMUNITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 81% · 2023 76% — 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
96% of QUIET COMMUNITIES 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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $261k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
QUIET COMMUNITIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding QUIET COMMUNITIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$25k
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 QUIET COMMUNITIES 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 QUIET COMMUNITIES 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds QUIET COMMUNITIES INC?
- QUIET COMMUNITIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,015 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does QUIET COMMUNITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $272,015 in grants to QUIET COMMUNITIES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of QUIET COMMUNITIES INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like QUIET COMMUNITIES 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.
Play a game about who funds Quiet Communities →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 6 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