Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PROSPERITY CATALYST INC
PROSPERITY CATALYST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $902,175 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($168,750). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $938k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $902k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Prosperity Catalyst Inc does
Mission
Prosperity catalyst develops and strengthens women-led businesses in distressed regions, providing business and technical training, creating opportunities for women to achieve economic and social empowerment.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
In 2013, not long after the earthquake, pcat started working in haiti, by providing business management training to 100 women in cap-haitian and launching a women-led candle production and export company called fanm limye (women illuminated), a for-profit business, which is 97% owned by prosperity catalyst with each of the remaining shares owned by two pcat board members and the current executive director. Fanm limye is also registered in haiti as a local nonprofit. In january 2015, pcat moved the operation to port-au-prince (pap), where there would be easier and cheaper access to supplies and to both local and export markets.the group of women trained in candle-making in pap found that their production was hampered by high quality beeswax, so pcat decided to work with local beekeepers starting in 2016. To date, we have trained 1,108 beekeepers, 62% women in 5 communes of the west department and 3 communes of nippes department. This year we added agroforestry training to the 32 beekeeping communities and planted another 25,000 trees. We are also launching a maternal child health and nutrition component.
$335,574 spent46% of program spendingOur work in iraq has a special emphasis on supporting and providing economic opportunities for female heads of household, war widows, internally displaced persons (idps), and other vulnerable women. In 2013, prosperity catalyst launched an innovative and market-driven model in baghdad, iraq, with the goal of creating economic opportunity for hundreds of iraqi women. We have supported operations in erbil, dohuk, mosul, baghdad, basra, dhi qar, muthana, and hilla. To date, we have provided technical training to 1,695 iraqi artisans, 93% women; provided business feasibility and planning training to 1,428 entrepreneurs909 artisans, 9285% women; and provided business expansion or start-up kits to 154 142 artisan businesses employing more than 505 people. We have also trained 103 tour guides and 150 tourism entrepreneurs, 55% women.
$390,113 spent54% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $725,687.
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 $363k to $212k (−42%).
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 56% · 2018 61% · 2019 67% · 2020 71% · 2021 81% · 2022 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of PROSPERITY CATALYST INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Catherine Gibbons
Executive director
Board chair
Dena Enos
Board chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell $232k → $104k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 PROSPERITY CATALYST INC’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
PROSPERITY CATALYST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
83% 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 PROSPERITY CATALYST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 42% · 2019 45% · 2020 63% · 2021 50% · 2022 33% · 2023 37% — 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
46% of PROSPERITY CATALYST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
PROSPERITY CATALYST INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $401k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
PROSPERITY CATALYST INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,463 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,463 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like PROSPERITY CATALYST 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 2 related entities
- Prosperity Catalyst LLC · disregarded
- Fanm Limye · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROSPERITY CATALYST INC?
- PROSPERITY CATALYST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $902,175 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($168,750). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROSPERITY CATALYST INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $902,175 in grants to PROSPERITY CATALYST INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROSPERITY CATALYST INC?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $168,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROSPERITY CATALYST 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 16 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