Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,876,088 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,482,608). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Women's Foundation of Massachusetts Inc does
Mission
The women's foundation of massachusetts, inc. Economically empowers women and girls in greater boston and across the commonwealth through creating and funding high impact leadership and economic programs in partnership with women's and girl's nonprofits.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Women's foundation of massachusetts, inc. Is a nonprofit public charity that creates, funds and accelerates high-impact economic and leadership programs that equip women and girls in greater boston and across the commonwealth to be financially independent and successful leaders. Wfma awards high-impact grants to nonprofits that economically empower women and girls in greater boston and the commonwealth. The grants target new programs or new groups served by the expansion of existing programs and have a transformative effect on the grantee nonprofits and program beneficiaries. Grants typically range from $10,000 to $100,000 annually for one to five years. During the year ended december 31, 2025, wfma awarded grants totaling $3.6m million to 20 organizations whose mission align with wfma's focus areas. The three focus areas are: career and economic empowerment: women's economic empowerment is crucial to community economic life, with financial independence for women as an essential first step. The women's foundation of massachusetts, inc. Funds programs in financial literacy, salary negotiation, job training and more. Education: the women's foundation of massachusetts, inc. Funds…
$3,075,741 spentof which $2,782,729 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,075,741.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $16M to $22M (+36%).
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.
89% of WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Christina Gordon
CEO
Board chair
Susan Littlefield
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $2.2M.
11 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 50% · 2019 46% · 2020 27% · 2021 20% · 2022 26% · 2023 47% — 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
50% of WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
53% of WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS 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 $6.9M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS 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 WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC?
- WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,876,088 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,482,608). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $14,876,088 in grants to WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,482,608 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 52 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing