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THE WELCOME PROJECT INC

THE WELCOME PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,558,159 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($331,076). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$530k
Funders on record
36
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$369k
20/36 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What The Welcome Project Inc does

Mission

The Welcome Project builds the collective power of immigrants to participate in and shapecommunity decisions through programming that strengthens the capacity of immigrant youth,adults, and families to advocate for themselves and influence schools, government, andother institutions that shape our lives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization works with youth and adults from immigrant families combining services withleadership development. Programs including interpretation services training, english as a secondlanguage programs.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($208k) Expenses 100 ($148k) Net assets 100 ($115k)2019 Revenue 155 ($324k) Expenses 215 ($320k) Net assets 173 ($199k)2020 Revenue 233 ($485k) Expenses 314 ($466k) Net assets 189 ($218k)2021 Revenue 475 ($989k) Expenses 461 ($684k) Net assets 450 ($519k)2022 Revenue 464 ($966k) Expenses 461 ($685k) Net assets 695 ($800k)2023 Revenue 309 ($644k) Expenses 629 ($934k) Net assets 446 ($515k)2024 Revenue 294 ($613k) Expenses 485 ($720k) Net assets 358 ($412k)2025 Revenue 254 ($530k) Expenses 398 ($591k) Net assets 320 ($369k)
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Revenue (254)Expenses (398)Net assets (320)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $532k to $844k (+59%).

$162k
$233k
$309k
$532k
$844k
$585k
$436k
$407k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 69% · 2022 45% · 2023 44% · 2024 53% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of THE WELCOME PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (73% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,446 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
’17
$4k
’19
$19k
’20
$305k
’21
$281k
’22
−$290k
’23
−$108k
’24
−$61k
’25
5.2
months of
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

Sara Kirubi

Executive director

Board chair

Kent Greenawalt

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed11108813162110
Joined··+2+2+6+4+5+6
No longer listed··4211017
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $64k → $146k.

10 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 THE WELCOME PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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

THE WELCOME PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

58% 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 THE WELCOME PROJECT INC.

21%
largest funder
46%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 25% · 2019 36% · 2020 35% · 2021 37% · 2022 37% · 2023 34% — 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.

How long its funders stay

41% of THE WELCOME PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

THE WELCOME PROJECT INC draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 7 states in all.

IL
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $611k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE WELCOME PROJECT INC has grown faster than half of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding THE WELCOME PROJECT INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.

State$55k
23
24
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$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 THE WELCOME PROJECT 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 21%Fundraising 3%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE WELCOME PROJECT INC?
THE WELCOME PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,558,159 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($331,076). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE WELCOME PROJECT INC have?
IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $1,558,159 in grants to THE WELCOME PROJECT INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE WELCOME PROJECT INC?
Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $331,076 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE WELCOME PROJECT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 36 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