Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC
FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,126,923 to it, the largest being HOME FOR AGED WOMEN INC ($1,059,412). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Friendshipworks Inc does
Mission
The mission of friendshipworks, inc. Is to reduce social isolation, enhance the quality of life, and preserve the dignity of older adults in the greater boston area. We do this through the dedicated efforts of a network of trained volunteers of all faiths who provide friendship, advocacy, education, assistance and emotional support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Friendshipworks signature friendly visiting program makes informal, long-lasting friendship matches between isolated elders and community volunteers, rewarding to both. Matches share experiences and favorite activities, and recognize one another's individuality and passions. Many call on friendshipworks because they are without family and friends. With age, a lack of friendship can become an obstacle to independence. Friendshipworks volunteers also desire to give back through connection. Through informal friendship matches, friendshipworks is breathing life into a lost tradition of neighbors helping neighbors.
$500,158 spent55% of program spendingMusicworks is a program that reduces isolation among frail and/or isolated elders through the shared experience of music. Participants interact with the music, singing, playing instruments, dancing, and of course, listening. Musicworks brings joy and connectivity into the lives of older adults. Musicworks has been a first step towards bringing the arts into all our programs and in fy 2025 was offered twice monthly in twelve spanish and english-speaking sites in boston.
$163,688 spent18% of program spendingFriendshipworks' medical escort program provides volunteers who escort elders to and from medical appointments. Volunteers provide emotional support and physical assistance to those whose age, health, or disability would prevent them from going to an appointment. In this fiscal year friendshipworks provided 402 medical escort rides to 93 elders.
$136,407 spent15% of program spendingFriendly helping and patpals
$109,125 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $909,378.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $1.7M (+63%).
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: 2019 5% · 2020 2% · 2021 22% · 2022 9% · 2023 20% · 2024 8% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $217k → $743k.
11 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
53% 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 FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 39% · 2019 24% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 24% · 2023 29% — 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 FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
83% of FRIENDSHIPWORKS 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. $800k 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
FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,325 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDSHIPWORKS 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
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDSHIPWORKS 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 FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC?
- FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,126,923 to it, the largest being HOME FOR AGED WOMEN INC ($1,059,412). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $4,126,923 in grants to FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC?
- HOME FOR AGED WOMEN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,059,412 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDSHIPWORKS 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 55 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing