Massachusetts · Nonprofit
RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,206 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($55,000). 4 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.
Against its field
RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundationlocal
- Building Hope Impact Fund Incportfolio match
- Fund for Individual Potentialportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
37% of RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $36k → $9k.
4 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 RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION 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
RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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 RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 100% · 2019 92% · 2020 56% · 2021 86% · 2022 86% · 2023 92% — 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 RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION 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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
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.
- Edward S & Winifred G Moseley FoundationlocalMA · funds 60 organizations near you
- Building Hope Impact Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Individual Potentialportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- GenYOUTH Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Asia Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toshiba America Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mr Holland's Opus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Winthrop H Smith Jr Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Skywords Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Leadership Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frederic Scott Bocock & Roberta Bryan Bocock Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nancy Nichols Olson Foundationportfolio 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 RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
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.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC?
- RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,206 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($55,000). 4 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 RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $92,206 in grants to RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION 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.
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 6funders 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