Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC
WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,676,557 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,504,041). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Wide Horizons for Children Inc does
Mission
Wide Horizons For Children advances the lifelong well-being of the most vulnerable children worldwide. To accomplish its mission, it: strengthens families to improve their ability to care for their children; improves outcomes for children living outside of parental care; places children with loving, adoptive families; and supports birth parents, adoptive parents and children throughout their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During the reporting year, WHFC continued programming focused on Orphan Care and Family Preservation. In terms of Orphan Care, our operational funding of two orphanages in Guatemala benefitted over 200 children, providing them with a holistic array of services including proper nutrition, stable and trained caregivers, and educational, medical and psychological services. WHFC also supported the orphanages efforts to reunify 25 Guatemalan parents with their children, by funding court mandated educational and support services. Additionally, WHFC supplied much sought after baby formula to 122 infants and sick children with a low likelihood of family care solutions in 10 orphanages in Burundi. Family Preservation programming continued to focus on stabilizing the family by promoting physical health and mental wellbeing, nutrition, education and financial empowerment initiatives. An overarching emphasis on gender equality ran through all WHFCs work, prioritizing a majority of female beneficiaries across programs. Approximately 2,670 individuals in Ethiopia, Burundi and Guatemala received services that ensure families remain intact, so their children dont fall into orphanage care. This…
$1,571,829 spentof which $1,176,706 as grants62% of program spendingWHFC provides a range of adoption related serices to clients throughout the United States. Expectant parents considering an adoptive placement of their unborn child receive counseling to support them in making the best decision for themselves and their child. Adoptive parents receive counseling and support from home study through post placement services. WHFC provides adoption placement services from six countries including the United States. During the year ended June 30, 2025, 48 children came home to their adoptive families. Five child-focused adoption subsidies were provided to assist families with the costs of adopting older and hard to place children who have serious medical conditions.
$903,290 spentof which $25,000 as grants$931,649 earned by the program36% of program spendingWide Horizons continues its support of birth families, adoptive children and their families after placement through post-adopt services. Post adopt services range from letter delivery to birth families, referral services, and support for travel back to a childs birth country. During the reporting year, the organization supported hundreds of families through these service offerings.
$55,183 spent$16,100 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,530,302.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.6M to $4.8M (+32%).
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: 2021 17% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% 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.
Chief executive
Janice Hoffman
President & CEO
Board chair
Jennifer Gill
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 23 funders, grant income fell $545k → $545k.
13 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 36% · 2019 50% · 2020 47% · 2021 54% · 2022 41% · 2023 51% — 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
40% of WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN 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
81% of WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN 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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC?
- WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,676,557 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,504,041). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $5,676,557 in grants to WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,504,041 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN 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 49 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