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SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION INC

SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,226,452 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$16k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$4.2M
Net assets
$86k
7/11 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey Association Inc does

Mission

Purpose of raising funds to provide for the maintenance, equipment, manning, programming and operation of the schooner ernestina ex effie m. Morrissey as a sail training vessel, school ship, and educational enterprise

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization raised funds from donations andfund-raisers with the aim of eventually accumulating themore than $1 million needed for repairs of this historical

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($222k) Expenses 100 ($178k) Net assets 100 ($217k)2018 Revenue 339 ($754k) Expenses 310 ($552k) Net assets 194 ($420k)2019 Revenue 238 ($528k) Expenses 208 ($372k) Net assets 266 ($576k)2020 Revenue 936 ($2.1M) Expenses 614 ($1.1M) Net assets 720 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 488 ($1.1M) Expenses 1044 ($1.9M) Net assets 361 ($782k)2022 Revenue 264 ($587k) Expenses 718 ($1.3M) Net assets 40 ($87k)2023 Revenue 7 ($15k) Expenses 12 ($21k) Net assets 38 ($81k)2024 Revenue 23 ($50k) Expenses 29 ($51k) Net assets 37 ($80k)2025 Revenue 7 ($16k) Expenses 6 ($11k) Net assets 39 ($86k)
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Revenue (7)Expenses (6)Net assets (39)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $576k to $1.8M (+219%).

$462k
$420k
$576k
$1.8M
$789k
$156k
$91k
$80k
$86k
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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

100% of SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
’17
$202k
’18
$156k
’19
$984k
’20
−$778k
’21
−$695k
’22
−$6k
’23
−$905
’24
$5k
’25
1.2
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.

201720182019202020212022
Listed101010101010
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $42k → $110k.

7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION 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

SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION INC.

59%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 77% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 50% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

29% of SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

93% of SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION 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 $313k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states.

NY
MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−28% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION INC

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05Profile & governance

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

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION INC?
SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,226,452 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $4,226,452 in grants to SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION INC?
THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION 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 11 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