Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE INC
ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,160 to it, the largest being INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS IN NEWBURYPORT & ITS VICINITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($9,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $37k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $37k
What Rockport New Years Eve Inc does
Mission
Affordable access to performing arts on Cape Ann in Massachusetts
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Rockport New Year's Eve event was held Decmber 31, 2025 and provided performing and visual arts entertainment for all ages. Approximately 1,300 attendees from around the North shore of Boston, and from further places including Illinois, California, New York. The event featured 27 performing groups in 9 indoor venues over the course of 6 hours, finishing with a celebratory midnight ball drop, and involved public service support from commuinty police, fire dept and public works dept. The 2025 event met goals for entertainment diversity and, most important its affordability ($25 per adult event button, $10 teens and free for children)
$0 spentof which $3,000 as grants
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $22k to $39k (+79%).
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.
29% of ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE 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
ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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
64% of ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE INC'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.
Against its field
ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 433 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 433 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Government funding ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$19k
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 ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE 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.
Public support
100%
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 ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE 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 ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE INC?
- ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,160 to it, the largest being INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS IN NEWBURYPORT & ITS VICINITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($9,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $14,160 in grants to ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE INC?
- INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS IN NEWBURYPORT & ITS VICINITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCKPORT NEW YEARS EVE 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 3 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