Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SUMMER INK INC
SUMMER INK INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,141 to it, the largest being PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC ($13,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- —
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Summer Ink Inc does
Mission
To give all students the power to explore their ideas, the skills to communicate them clearly, and the conviction that the world wants to hear them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Summer ink operates summer camp programs. The camps are writing and adventure camps for children in the 5th through 10th grade and are run on the campus of simmons college. Campers make tangible and dramatic progress in their writing, as well as take academic and social risks through engaging in fun and challenging activities. No camp programs were run in 2024.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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.
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 $35k to $12k (−65%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SUMMER INK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $14k → $16.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 SUMMER INK 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
SUMMER INK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 SUMMER INK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 78% · 2020 97% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
64% of SUMMER INK 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. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
SUMMER INK INC's revenue fell 100% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SUMMER INK 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUMMER INK 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 SUMMER INK INC?
- SUMMER INK INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,141 to it, the largest being PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC ($13,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUMMER INK INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $33,141 in grants to SUMMER INK INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUMMER INK INC?
- PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUMMER INK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 7 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