Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL
SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,422 to it, the largest being Pilgrim Bank Foundation ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- The Flatley Foundationshared funders
- Service Employees International Union Local No 99portfolio match
- Western States Regional Council of Carpentersportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $11k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL’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
SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 89%; 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: 2022 50% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
83% of SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- The Flatley Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 11 organizations that share your funders
- Service Employees International Union Local No 99portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western States Regional Council of Carpentersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The St Joe Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Civic Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Torras Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedfordportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruth Mott Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Black Voters Matter Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Angel Society of Fallbrookportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- East County Economic Development Councilportfolio 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.
Government funding SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$40k
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 SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL
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.
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 SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL?
- SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,422 to it, the largest being Pilgrim Bank Foundation ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $14,422 in grants to SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL?
- Pilgrim Bank Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL 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 2025–2025), 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