Massachusetts · Nonprofit
DOC WAYNE INC
DOC WAYNE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,734,406 to it, the largest being THE DEVONSHIRE FOUNDATION ($761,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $-87877
What Doc Wayne Inc does
Mission
Doc wayne is an award-winning non-profit leading the field of sport-based therapy and catalyzing a mental health movement. We provide training, tools, and services that address emotional, behavioral, traumatic, racial, gender, and cultural-based barriers by providing equitable access to better mental health for all. Our clinician-led curricula put sport into practice, strengthening social-emotional skills in young learners to build healthier, more resilient global communities. Our mission: to provide access to brighter futures for youth around the world and strengthen the field of mental health by using revolutionary sport-based therapy and clinical initiatives. Our vision: to level the playing field of mental health globally by harnessing the power of sport-based therapy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Doc wayne works with approximately 300 students weekly through our community-based chalk talk group therapy program in schools, housing developments, and after-school programs in greater boston and eastern massachusetts. Chalk talk is an outpatient sports-based billable group therapy program that utilizes a team of experienced clinicians and trained coaches. This is a clinician-guided environment where sport is the lens through which youth examine important social and emotional issues in real time.
$2,081,788 spent$443,118 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,081,788.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $2.0M (+81%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 13% · 2021 8% · 2022 15% · 2023 15% · 2024 15% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of DOC WAYNE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Board chair
David Dubinsky
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $269k → $824k.
12 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 DOC WAYNE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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
DOC WAYNE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
38% 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 DOC WAYNE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 44% · 2019 33% · 2020 19% · 2021 20% · 2022 19% · 2023 10% — 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
44% of DOC WAYNE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
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
79% of DOC WAYNE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $744k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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.
Against its field
DOC WAYNE INC has grown faster than half of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DOC WAYNE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$753k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$702k
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 DOC WAYNE INC
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.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Communities for People Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOC WAYNE 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOC WAYNE INC?
- DOC WAYNE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,734,406 to it, the largest being THE DEVONSHIRE FOUNDATION ($761,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOC WAYNE INC have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $5,734,406 in grants to DOC WAYNE INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOC WAYNE INC?
- THE DEVONSHIRE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $761,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOC WAYNE 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.
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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 78 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