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RIDGEWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION

RIDGEWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being LAWRENCE & ALICE VALENSTEIN FAMILY FUND INC ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$6.1M
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Ridgewood Cemetery Association does

Mission

Established in 1850, ridgewood cemetery is a private not-for-profit cemetery. It is owned by the Ridgewood Cemetery Association and governed by a volunteer board of trustees. Ridgewood cemetery serves families representing all religions, cultures and walks of life in a tradition of compassion, integrity and excellence.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Ridgewood Cemetery Association (rca) operates a full service cemetery, including grave lot sales and interments. Rca also oversees the care, maintenance, restoration and preservation of the cemetery and their collections, a portion of which is funded through community preservation grants from the town of north andover.

    $593,107 spent$380,926 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $593,107.

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 ($838k) Expenses 100 ($352k) Net assets 100 ($4.1M)2018 Revenue 105 ($879k) Expenses 111 ($390k) Net assets 116 ($4.7M)2019 Revenue 57 ($481k) Expenses 123 ($431k) Net assets 117 ($4.8M)2020 Revenue 92 ($768k) Expenses 134 ($471k) Net assets 120 ($4.9M)2021 Revenue 53 ($446k) Expenses 143 ($504k) Net assets 132 ($5.4M)2022 Revenue 118 ($986k) Expenses 171 ($603k) Net assets 137 ($5.6M)2023 Revenue 67 ($562k) Expenses 206 ($727k) Net assets 130 ($5.3M)2024 Revenue 111 ($931k) Expenses 207 ($728k) Net assets 140 ($5.7M)2025 Revenue 133 ($1.1M) Expenses 210 ($741k) Net assets 150 ($6.1M)
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Revenue (133)Expenses (210)Net assets (150)

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 $5.3M to $6.3M (+18%).

$4.1M
$4.8M
$4.8M
$4.9M
$5.4M
$5.6M
$5.3M
$6.3M
$6.6M
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 66% · 2018 56% · 2020 51% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$486k
’17
$489k
’18
$50k
’19
$296k
’20
−$58k
’21
$383k
’22
−$165k
’23
$203k
’24
$371k
’25
2.8
months of
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed9888810101010
Joined·+0+0+0+0+3+1+0+0
No longer listed·10001100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of RIDGEWOOD CEMETERY 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.

Where its funders are

RIDGEWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.

NY

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

Government funding RIDGEWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.

State$15k
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$15k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds RIDGEWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION?
RIDGEWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being LAWRENCE & ALICE VALENSTEIN FAMILY FUND INC ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RIDGEWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to RIDGEWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RIDGEWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION?
LAWRENCE & ALICE VALENSTEIN FAMILY FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RIDGEWOOD CEMETERY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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