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SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,673,440 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,838,565). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

$12M
Revenue FY2024
74
Funders on record
$27M
Grants received
$59M
Net assets
34/74 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$28M

Recipients

265

Contributions on record

$27M

Donors on record

76

Payments out are 1.05x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($5.1M) Expenses 100 ($4.0M) Net assets 100 ($35M)2018 Revenue 109 ($5.6M) Expenses 124 ($5.0M) Net assets 100 ($34M)2019 Revenue 138 ($7.1M) Expenses 129 ($5.2M) Net assets 118 ($41M)2020 Revenue 272 ($14M) Expenses 279 ($11M) Net assets 133 ($46M)2021 Revenue 269 ($14M) Expenses 256 ($10M) Net assets 149 ($52M)2022 Revenue 251 ($13M) Expenses 210 ($8.5M) Net assets 138 ($48M)2023 Revenue 206 ($10M) Expenses 247 ($10.0M) Net assets 155 ($53M)2024 Revenue 228 ($12M) Expenses 187 ($7.5M) Net assets 171 ($59M)
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Revenue (228)Expenses (187)Net assets (171)

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 18% · 2022 24% · 2023 15% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.1M
17
$566k
18
$1.9M
19
$2.6M
20
$3.4M
21
$4.3M
22
$543k
23
$4.1M
24
13
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $3.5M.

18 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)76% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $376k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Southcoast Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 funders by total. 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

76% of SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY 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 $6.4M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
OH
CT
RI
CA
UT
FL

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. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 74 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.8M on record — $100k federal, $7.7M state.

Federal$100k
grants $100kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$100k
State$7.7M
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23
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$7.7M

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.

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 11%Fundraising 4%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

82%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY 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 SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC?
SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,673,440 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,838,565). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $26,673,440 in grants to SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,838,565 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 74funders 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