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THE JULIA CEKALA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

THE JULIA CEKALA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being CARMAX FOUNDATION ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$18k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$4k
Net assets
$275k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What The Julia Cekala Charitable Foundation does

Program

  1. Development, design and maintenance of julia's garden and playground at north attleboro's world war I memorial park.

    $16,911 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($95k) Expenses 100 ($69k) Net assets 100 ($451k)2019 Revenue 50 ($47k) Expenses 52 ($36k) Net assets 103 ($462k)2020 Revenue 20 ($19k) Expenses 81 ($55k) Net assets 94 ($425k)2021 Revenue 21 ($20k) Expenses 148 ($101k) Net assets 76 ($344k)2022 Revenue 21 ($20k) Expenses 129 ($89k) Net assets 61 ($275k)2023 Revenue 26 ($25k) Expenses 30 ($20k) Net assets 62 ($279k)2024 Revenue 19 ($18k) Expenses 32 ($22k) Net assets 61 ($275k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (19)Expenses (32)Net assets (61)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 2020 to 2021, from $425k to $344k (−19%).

$451k
$462k
$425k
$344k
$275k
$279k
$275k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed2222222
Joined·······
No longer listed·······
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income held at $2k.

From the IRS filings of THE JULIA CEKALA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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

THE JULIA CEKALA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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

75%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 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

THE JULIA CEKALA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.

MA
VA

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

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’18
Massachusetts out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE JULIA CEKALA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve151.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−24% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE JULIA CEKALA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
THE JULIA CEKALA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being CARMAX FOUNDATION ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE JULIA CEKALA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,000 in grants to THE JULIA CEKALA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE JULIA CEKALA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
CARMAX FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE JULIA CEKALA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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