Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WESTERN UNITED PIONEERS
WESTERN UNITED PIONEERS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,500 to it, the largest being JOSEPH & ANNA C DIAS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($85,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $138k
- Net assets
- $757k
What Western United Pioneers does
Mission
Our mission is to develop players of all ages on and off the pitch. Our programs, coaching, and mentoring prepare players for the highest level of competition and help them thrive in the community by promoting academic success, personal responsibility, and necessary life skills. Western United Pioneers is dedicated to the development of the premier youth soccer player's technical, tactical, physical and psychological skills, while strongly emphasizing teamwork and fair play. Partnerships with the new england revolution academy (mls), the western mass pioneers (usl) and the new england mutiny (wpsl) provide a well- defined path for its players to the highest levels of this beautiful game.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Players are provided the opportunity for a soccer learning experience that is unsurpassed in new england with dynamic training by a nationally licensed professional coaching staff comprised of former professional, semi-professional, and collegiate players. Western united pioneer teams play at the highest level of state and regional competition in the new england premier league (nep), the massachusetts premier league (maple), region I leagues and the us youth soccer national championship series as well as at prestigious tournaments throughout the country. Programs, teams, and coaching are all tailored to provide each player and family with the training, support, and competition required to reach their true potential within the premier soccer environment.
$923,366 spent100% of program spending.
$1,216 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $924,582.
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 2020 to 2021, from $538k to $767k (+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: 2020 7% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of WESTERN UNITED PIONEERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of WESTERN UNITED PIONEERS’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
WESTERN UNITED PIONEERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 75% · 2019 62% · 2020 40% · 2021 44% · 2022 67% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WESTERN UNITED PIONEERS's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
WESTERN UNITED PIONEERS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WESTERN UNITED PIONEERS
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
97% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN UNITED PIONEERS: 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 WESTERN UNITED PIONEERS?
- WESTERN UNITED PIONEERS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,500 to it, the largest being JOSEPH & ANNA C DIAS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($85,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN UNITED PIONEERS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $137,500 in grants to WESTERN UNITED PIONEERS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN UNITED PIONEERS?
- JOSEPH & ANNA C DIAS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN UNITED PIONEERS 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 3 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