Massachusetts · Nonprofit
RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,000 to it, the largest being NEIL & ANNA RASMUSSEN FOUNDATION ($300,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Pobble Stone Foundationshared funders
- Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnatiportfolio match
- Heritage Harbor Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50k → $55k.
From the IRS filings of RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION’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
RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 91% · 2023 91% — 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
93% of RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
- Pobble Stone Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 10 organizations that share your funders
- Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnatiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heritage Harbor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Maportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur Griffin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Hampshire Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bagan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Coby Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Hampshire Preservation Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: 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 RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION?
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,000 to it, the largest being NEIL & ANNA RASMUSSEN FOUNDATION ($300,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $345,000 in grants to RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION?
- NEIL & ANNA RASMUSSEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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