Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC
SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,002 to it, the largest being CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($59,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $245k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $325k
- Net assets
- $-160400
What Solutions at Work Inc does
Mission
Break the cycle of poverty and homelessness by providing individuals and families with the opportunities to strengthen their self-confidence, professional skills and financial stability. The organization evisions a greater boston where homelessness and poor people have the resources, opportunities and partners needed to achieve self sufficiency. The organization serve approximately 6,000 people living in poverty annually. The organization's program provide the following resources because countless local homeless people have told the organization time and a gain that these are precisely the things they need to get thier lives back on track.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Servicessee attached schedule o
$133,366 spent$244,932 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $133,366.
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 2023 to 2024, from $700k to $62k (−91%).
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 43% · 2021 80% · 2023 97% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $15k → $48k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 SOLUTIONS AT WORK 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
SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
38% 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 SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 97% · 2019 41% · 2020 56% · 2021 52% · 2022 67% · 2023 52% — broadly stable.
“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
45% of SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
81% of SOLUTIONS AT WORK 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. $125k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC has grown faster than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.3M on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$5.3M
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 SOLUTIONS AT WORK 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
35% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SOLUTIONS AT WORK 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 SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC?
- SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,002 to it, the largest being CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($59,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $325,002 in grants to SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC?
- CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $59,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOLUTIONS AT WORK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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