Massachusetts · Nonprofit
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being LINCOLN & THERESE FILENE FOUNDATION INC #0706176 ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $159k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $145k
What League of Women Voters of Massachusetts does
Mission
Lwvma, a nonpartisan organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide nonpartisan informational and educational programs designed to promote political responsibility by informing and encouraging active participation of citizens in governmental affairs.
$137,537 spent$13,545 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $137,537.
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 2024 to 2025, from $218k to $162k (−26%).
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.
81% of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% 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.
Chief executive
Celia Canavan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $10k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $13k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest League of Women Voters Lotte E Scharfman Memorial Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS raised.
From the IRS filings of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS’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 VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 91% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS is better cushioned than half of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- League of Women Voters Lotte E Scharfman Memorial Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS: 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 VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS?
- LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being LINCOLN & THERESE FILENE FOUNDATION INC #0706176 ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $36,000 in grants to LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS?
- LINCOLN & THERESE FILENE FOUNDATION INC #0706176 is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS 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.
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 2 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