Massachusetts · Nonprofit
RESIST INC
RESIST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 191 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,807,570 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,040,653). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 191
- Grants received
- $44M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Resist Inc does
Mission
Resist is a foundation that supports people's movements for justice and liberation. We redistribute resources back to frontline communities at the forefront of change while amplifying their stories of building a better world. Resist has two programmatic areas: resource redistribution and storytelling.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Based in boston, massachusetts, movement sustainability commons nourishes and sustains people and groups working for justice, economic democracy, and liberation by offering affordable, high-quality services, practices, spaces and pathways that support both interdependence and self-reliance for community self-determination. Movement sustainability commons strengthens partner's short and long-term sustainability by offering affordable, high-quality services while centering relationships and connection, all as an intentional form of resource redistribution beyond grantmaking. Our offerings prior to 2024 include providing fiscal sponsorship to 25 projects across new england and nationally, building a birth and community center in boston, capacity building for fundraisers in nonprofit organizations, 2 seasonal events offering restorative practices to nonprofit leaders, a fund for healing practitioners supporting nonprofit leaders, and developing and launching a pathway for new services to be developed through an "experiments" program. In 2024, we added an offering to train people in transformative justice practices toward conflict resolution and healing. All movement sustainability…
$13,898,740 spentof which $3,488,459 as grants96% of program spendingResource redistribution program:resist maintains a vigorous grantmaking program that distributes funds across the united states each year.resist funds activist organizing, cultural organizing, resilience building, and educational work within movements for social change - concentrating on support for organizations that do not have access to more traditional sources of funds. As a result, resist's funding priorities include groups with an annual budget of $150,000 or less and projects that encourage people to take action, rather than merely disseminate information or perform social services. Grant decisions are made by current or past grantees who sit on resist's grant-making panel and are made in accordance with resist's funding priorities. Targeted grantmaking programs include: general support - organizations that meet resist's funding criteria may apply for a one-year general support grant. Resist provides funds for general support as a means of enabling grantees to build infrastructure and capacity while engaged in ongoing social justice activism. Accessibility funding - resist is committed to supporting projects that enable all people to participate in the movement for justice…
$529,175 spentof which $190,500 as grants4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,427,915.
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 2022 to 2023, from $16M to $27M (+73%).
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: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Leseliey Welch
CEO, birth center equity
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 97 funders, grant income rose $103k → $12M.
44 of 191 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $61k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Resist Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money RESIST INC raised.
From the IRS filings of RESIST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 191 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
RESIST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
60% 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 RESIST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 31% · 2019 32% · 2020 18% · 2021 12% · 2022 13% · 2023 15% — 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
51% of RESIST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
RESIST INC draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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 RESIST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- MA$1.0M
- VT$55k
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 RESIST 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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESIST 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 RESIST INC?
- RESIST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 191 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,807,570 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,040,653). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RESIST INC have?
- IRS filings report 191 organizations giving $43,807,570 in grants to RESIST INC, 102 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESIST INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,040,653 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESIST 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 191 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