Massachusetts · Nonprofit
LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE
LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $354,500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($165,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $564k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $355k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What League of Women for Community Service does
Mission
The purpose of the League of Women for Community Service shall be to undertake such work, educational and charitable, as will benefit the community and to cooperate with other agencies working for the same end. The league shall serve as a forum for informing the public about pertinent issues that affect the social, economic, and general well-being of the community. Such topics might include but not be limited to, health, education, and social concerns/issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The league is in the midst of restoration planning for its headquarters. We had an architectural, structural analysis and conditions assessment completed. Meanwhile we have been sorting, cataloging, and preparing our papers and documents for archival and storages with the help of university archivists. The league's consultant has been submitting grant proposals to begin addressing immediate building remediation. Capital campaign discussion is underway. Traditionally our three largest programs have been a women's history month speaker's forum. Under charitable activities there has been a college scholarship program for black women, thanksgiving and christmas gift cards, food, and clothing for families in need, and public speaking events highlighting the role of the league's early pioneers in local and national black history. But with covid-19 the building has been closed, except to members safely following social distancing precautions. League attention has been focused inward, creating a new website and promotional material, subcommittee work, grant search and proposal submission. The pandemic did not prevent us from supporting families during the holidays and making a charitable…
$68,572 spent$2,671 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $68,572.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.3M to $2.9M (+28%).
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: 2021 29% · 2022 6% · 2023 62% · 2024 68% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $178k → $77k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE’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
LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 93% · 2023 52% — 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
LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.
Government funding LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $618k on record — $498k federal, $120k state.
- Department of the Interior$498k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$120k
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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE: 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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE?
- LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $354,500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($165,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $354,500 in grants to LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE?
- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES is the largest funder on record, with $165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE 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 6 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