Cataumet Cemetery Association
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Private Cemetery offering individual and family burial lots to residents of villages of Cataumet, Pocasset, and North Falmouth and to relatives of deceased buried in the cemetery. Cemetery burials date from 1768. Cemetery Association was chartered by Massachusetts Legislature in 1884. Cataumet Cemetery Association is a charitable organization operated for the benefit of its lot owner members and is governed by an elected Board of Officers and Trustees.
- Income
- $76,001
- Spending
- $22,400
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 20
- Highest pay
- $2,100, secretary
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (4)
- $81 spent. Program: Lot Sales and Burials Administration. There were 8 Lots sold and deeded in 2025. There were 5 burials supervised by the Secretary.
- Program: Lot corner marking in active single and family lot sections. Placed corner markers on all lots sold in 2025.
- Program: Management of trees in cemetery property. Trees are pruned and removed when necessary and stumps removed by grinding. Tree work in 2025 was limited to volunteer cleanup of fallen branches and significant pruning of overgrown shrubs.
- $2,775 spent. Automation of cemetery records using CIMS database system. Initiated data conversion under guidance of a Trustee and using volunteer and paid resources. Expenses included $675 for software annual maintenance and $2,100 payment to Secretary for work above and beyond normal duties.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(13) cemetery company.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since May 1985.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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