Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE WURTMAN FOUNDATION INC
THE WURTMAN FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,145,431 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($485,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $458k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What The Wurtman Foundation Inc does
Programs
Russian immigrants program: the foundation continues to develop and implement a program to assist russian "aliya" activists who fought for the right to emigrate to israel from the former soviet union.
$76,820 spentPico kids : stem education initiative the pico kids stem education project was established by the wurtman foundation to enhance the quality of innovation and technology education and to provide an experiential learning program for israel hs students. The program facilitates I) learning through creating; and ii) creating through learning. Children are exposed to a wide range of entrepreneurs, scientific studies and hands-on enrichment activities. The program aims to provide children with a space where, beyond the educational experience, it will be "fun and educationally meaningful for them to spend time. Participants and staff in the pico kids stem education project have also assisted with and participated in delivery of life saving equipment, clothing and supplies to those displaced or otherwise affected by the war beginning with the oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attack and have also assisted with humanitarian initiatives on behalf of the hostages seized on oct. 7th and their families.
$67,842 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 $866k to $1.4M (+65%).
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 held at 3 funders, grant income rose $43k → $87k.
7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 WURTMAN FOUNDATION 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
THE WURTMAN FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 WURTMAN FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 90% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 86% — 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
50% of THE WURTMAN FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 64% 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
75% of THE WURTMAN FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $282k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $863k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
THE WURTMAN FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE WURTMAN FOUNDATION 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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE WURTMAN FOUNDATION INC?
- THE WURTMAN FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,145,431 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($485,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE WURTMAN FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,145,431 in grants to THE WURTMAN FOUNDATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WURTMAN FOUNDATION INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $485,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WURTMAN FOUNDATION 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 11 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