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THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC

THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,231,074 to it, the largest being Metro North Regional Employment Board ($488,623). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$5.8M
Revenue FY2024
27
Funders on record
$2.2M
Grants received
$-3934391
Net assets
17/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Against its field

THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC has grown faster than half of the 4,197 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,197 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 151 ($3.1M) Expenses 137 ($3.7M) Net assets 73 ($756k)2019 Revenue 159 ($3.3M) Expenses 160 ($4.3M) Net assets -24 ($-249717)2020 Revenue 191 ($3.9M) Expenses 187 ($5.0M) Net assets -130 ($-1345678)2021 Revenue 218 ($4.5M) Expenses 184 ($4.9M) Net assets -205 ($-2132317)2022 Revenue 220 ($4.5M) Expenses 208 ($5.6M) Net assets -307 ($-3190507)2023 Revenue 228 ($4.7M) Expenses 206 ($5.5M) Net assets -390 ($-4051700)2024 Revenue 285 ($5.8M) Expenses 214 ($5.7M) Net assets -379 ($-3934391)
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Revenue (285)Expenses (214)Net assets (-379)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2018 27% · 2019 24% · 2020 9% · 2021 21% · 2022 4% · 2023 10% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

21% of THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,406 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$632k
17
$593k
18
$1.0M
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$1.1M
20
$476k
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$1.1M
22
$861k
23
$78k
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2.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $202k → $212k.

7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)14% 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 THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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.

How concentrated its funding is

THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

66% 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 THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC.

22%
largest funder
54%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 35% · 2019 24% · 2020 27% · 2021 23% · 2022 34% · 2023 24%diversifying over time.

“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

43% of THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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

92% of THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

ME
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. $319k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 27 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 THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $379k on record.

State$379k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$357k
  • (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$22k

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 THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 8%Fundraising 3%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Part of a family of 23 related entities

  • Walnut Street Apartment LLC · disregarded
  • 109 Gilman Street LLC · disregarded
  • 75 Cross Street LLC · disregarded
  • St Polycarp Redevelopment LLC · disregarded
  • Somerville Homeownership LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION 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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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 THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC?
THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,231,074 to it, the largest being Metro North Regional Employment Board ($488,623). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,231,074 in grants to THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC?
Metro North Regional Employment Board is the largest funder on record, with $488,623 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION 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 27funders 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