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VOLUNTEERS AT SIPPICAN ELEMENTARY I

VOLUNTEERS AT SIPPICAN ELEMENTARY I (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,503 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($1,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$25k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$85k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Volunteers at Sippican Elementary I does

Mission

Fundraising and organizing performing arts and events throughout the school year for students to enhance what is being learned in the classroom.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Performing arts events for grades k-6 and preschool program servicing students including various student field trips and 6th grade activities.

    $25,588 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,588.

02The 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 ($27k) Expenses 100 ($24k) Net assets 100 ($12k)2018 Revenue 165 ($44k) Expenses 96 ($23k) Net assets 283 ($33k)2019 Revenue 241 ($64k) Expenses 227 ($53k) Net assets 376 ($44k)2020 Revenue 132 ($35k) Expenses 83 ($20k) Net assets 510 ($60k)2021 Revenue 123 ($33k) Expenses 120 ($28k) Net assets 549 ($65k)2022 Revenue 169 ($45k) Expenses 125 ($29k) Net assets 683 ($81k)2023 Revenue 114 ($31k) Expenses 129 ($30k) Net assets 686 ($81k)2024 Revenue 101 ($27k) Expenses 93 ($22k) Net assets 729 ($86k)2025 Revenue 95 ($25k) Expenses 114 ($27k) Net assets 718 ($85k)
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Revenue (95)Expenses (114)Net assets (718)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 2017 to 2018, from $12k to $33k (+183%).

$12k
$33k
$44k
$60k
$65k
$81k
$81k
$86k
$85k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

38% of VOLUNTEERS AT SIPPICAN ELEMENTARY I’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’17
$22k
’18
$11k
’19
$16k
’20
$5k
’21
$16k
’22
$310
’23
$5k
’24
−$1k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $475 → $508.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 VOLUNTEERS AT SIPPICAN ELEMENTARY I’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

VOLUNTEERS AT SIPPICAN ELEMENTARY I leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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

60%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 72% · 2023 59% — 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.

Where its funders are

71% of VOLUNTEERS AT SIPPICAN ELEMENTARY I's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
NC

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

’18
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $378 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

VOLUNTEERS AT SIPPICAN ELEMENTARY I has grown faster than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like VOLUNTEERS AT SIPPICAN ELEMENTARY I

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VOLUNTEERS AT SIPPICAN ELEMENTARY I: 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 VOLUNTEERS AT SIPPICAN ELEMENTARY I?
VOLUNTEERS AT SIPPICAN ELEMENTARY I (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,503 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($1,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VOLUNTEERS AT SIPPICAN ELEMENTARY I have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,503 in grants to VOLUNTEERS AT SIPPICAN ELEMENTARY I, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEERS AT SIPPICAN ELEMENTARY I?
FIDELITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VOLUNTEERS AT SIPPICAN ELEMENTARY I 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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