- Revenue 2025
- $8,814,269
- Expenses 2025
- $7,354,074
Program services were 90.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- T31
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 100 MERRIMACK ST STE 202
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
THE MISSION OF THE GREATER LOWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION IS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE AREA. THE FOUNDATION IS A COMMUNITY RESOURCE, WHICH ATTRACTS FUNDS, DISTRIBUTES GRANTS, AND SERVES AS A CATALYST AND LEADER AMONG FUNDERS, AGENCIES AND INDIVIDUALS TO ADDRESS IDENTIFIED AND EMERGENT NEEDS. THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION IS A PROFESSIONAL, COMPASSIONATE STEWARD OF DONOR FUNDS AND BUILDS UPON THE CREATIVE VISION OF ITS FOUNDERS AND THE COMMUNITY. IT PROMOTES AND ENCOURAGES THE ROLE OF PHILANTHROPY IN IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE COMMUNITIES IT SERVES.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The mission of the Greater Lowell Community Foundation is to improve the quality of life in the area. The Foundation is a community resource, which attracts funds, distributes grants, and serves as a catalyst and leader among funders, agencies, and individuals to address identified and emergent needs. The community foundation is a professional, compassionate steward of donor funds and builds upon the creative vision of its founders and the community. It promotes and encourages the role of philanthropy in improving the quality of life in the communities it serves.
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DISTRIBUTING GRANTS TO LOCAL NON-PROFIT AGENCIES AND SCHOLARSHIPS TO AREA STUDENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR MISSION TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE GREATER LOWELL COMMUNITY.
Expenses $6,652,758 · Grants $4,554,821
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Chester Szablak
Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Karen Frederick
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Michael R King
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Charles H Comtois CPA
Assistant Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Dorothy Chen-Courtin PhD
Clerk
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Atty Andrea S Batchelder
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Susanne Beaton
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Yun-Ju Choi
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Stepanie Cronin
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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David Daley
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Eric P Healy
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Patti Mason
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Glen Mello
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Diana Nguyen
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Shiela Och
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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JuanCarlos Rivera
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Brian J Stafford
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Jay Stephens
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Cherrice Lattimore
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Ben K James
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Andrew Macey
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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James F Linnehan
President/CEO
- Total calculated
- $210,353
- From this org
- $202,136
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $8,217
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $202,136
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $8,217 + $1,114 related
- Filer's total
- $210,353 + $1,114 related
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Howard Amidon
VP of Philanthropy
- Total calculated
- $163,670
- From this org
- $129,181
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $34,489
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $129,181
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $34,489
- Filer's total
- $163,670
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Jennifer Aradhya
VP for Marketing
- Total calculated
- $155,678
- From this org
- $149,081
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $6,597
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $149,081
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $6,597
- Filer's total
- $155,678
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Janinne Nocco
Controller
- Total calculated
- $127,858
- From this org
- $120,770
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $7,088
- Hours/week
- 40
The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2025
- Revenue
- $8,814,269
- Expenses
- $7,354,074
- Contributions
- $6,195,661
- Grants paid
- $4,554,821
-
2024
- Revenue
- $7,589,018
- Expenses
- $6,474,219
- Contributions
- $4,656,283
- Grants paid
- $3,781,246
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2023
- Revenue
- $8,510,011
- Expenses
- $7,200,108
- Contributions
- $6,542,371
- Grants paid
- $4,924,269
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2022
- Revenue
- $9,411,237
- Expenses
- $5,650,735
- Contributions
- $7,964,468
- Grants paid
- $3,483,958
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $8,473,367
- Expenses
- $6,202,854
- Assets (EOY)
- $59,223,650
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $8,402,571
- Expenses
- $6,003,528
- Assets (EOY)
- $50,953,660
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,987,115
- Expenses
- $2,954,460
- Assets (EOY)
- $43,138,462
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,297,765
- Expenses
- $3,726,538
- Assets (EOY)
- $35,060,161
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,513,596
- Expenses
- $2,634,236
- Assets (EOY)
- $36,917,263
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,328,319
- Expenses
- $1,981,950
- Assets (EOY)
- $31,702,199
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $7,488,207
- Expenses
- $2,438,869
- Assets (EOY)
- $31,278,162
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,702,090
- Expenses
- $2,098,286
- Assets (EOY)
- $27,858,050
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,338,271
- Expenses
- $2,181,690
- Assets (EOY)
- $27,215,028
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $1,755,450
- Assets (EOY)
- $23,739,426
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Grants made
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Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc
$277,348
2025 Agriculture, Fishing, & Forestry - K31 Food Banks, Pantries
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Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership
$275,086
2025 HUMAN SERVICES - L00 Housing General
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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH
$229,842
2023 RELIGION
-
$228,767
2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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UMass Lowell
$212,900
2025 EDUCATION - B00 General
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL
$190,159
2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2025 Human Services - O20 Youth Centers and Clubs
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$182,116
2025 ARTS & CULTURE - A00 General
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UMASS LOWELL
$178,000
2024 FOR THE CONCERT
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2025 ARTS & CULTURE - A00 General
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
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2025 Public Affairs - W30 Veteran's Affairs
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2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA
$72,670
2022 CHARITABLE DONATION
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2022 ENVIRONMENTAL
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2022 ARTS & CULTURE
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$25,300
2024 PROTECT
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$25,000
2024 OPERATIONS
-
$25,000
2023 OPERATIONS
-
$25,000
2022 OPERATIONS
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2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.