Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MORE THAN WORDS INC
MORE THAN WORDS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 200 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,095,826 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,746,224). 124 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 200
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $10M
What More Than Words Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to empower youth who are in foster care, court involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mtw is a social enterprise that empowers system-involved youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. We serve the boston area's most underserved young people who face compounding risk factors: 55% are involved in the foster care system, 41% are court-involved, and 25% face homelessness. Over the past 20+ years, mtw has developed and refined a model that consistently empowers youth to achieve measurable outcomes in education, work, and life.at mtw youth begin with intensive supportive services to help them get stabilized and ready for job training, including work on essential documents, transportation, food security, and housing. Then youth earn a job managing every facet of a $4m+ business, developing valuable, transferable skills approximately 10-25 hours/week. Youth source used books and clothing items, sell them online and in three retail stores, run a flexible event space, and go out into the community on a mobile bookstore. They also hold a second, equally important you job, in which they receive intensive case management to work towards personal goals. Two-plus years of continued support in the career services program and access to bridge funding help…
$8,921,664 spentof which $347,996 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,921,664.
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 2017 to 2018, from $13M to $16M (+25%).
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 8% · 2018 11% · 2019 16% · 2020 20% · 2021 34% · 2022 31% · 2023 38% · 2024 37% · 2025 33%. 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.
Chief executive
Jodi Rosenbaum
CEO
Board chair
John Chory
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 97 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $3.3M.
27 of 200 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 MORE THAN WORDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 200 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
MORE THAN WORDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
45% 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 MORE THAN WORDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 21% · 2019 20% · 2020 16% · 2021 16% · 2022 20% · 2023 14% — 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
55% of MORE THAN WORDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
72% of MORE THAN WORDS 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. $8.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.
Government funding MORE THAN WORDS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.9M on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$7.3M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$4.6M
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$4k
- (FF) FACILITY OPERATIONAL EXPENSES$950
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 MORE THAN WORDS 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 40 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MORE THAN WORDS 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 MORE THAN WORDS INC?
- MORE THAN WORDS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 200 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,095,826 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,746,224). 124 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MORE THAN WORDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 200 organizations giving $23,095,826 in grants to MORE THAN WORDS INC, 124 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MORE THAN WORDS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,746,224 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MORE THAN WORDS 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.
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 200 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