Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC
WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 235 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,815,982 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,752,037). 141 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 235
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Women's Lunch Place Inc does
Mission
Women's lunch place (wlp) inspires hope and supports the development of self-sustaining skills for women experiencing hunger, homelessness, and poverty. We create a safe, welcoming day shelter community in which we respect the dignity of our guests. We build trusting relationships to provide individualized, integrated services focused on nutrition, health, housing, and economic empowerment. In the effort to eradicate hunger, homelessness, and poverty among women, wlp is a visionary, collaborative leader, and partner in greater boston. With a unique, relationship-driven service model, we provide women with a path to self-sufficiency, improved health, housing, and financial stability. Women's lunch place is a low-threshold day shelter and advocacy center for anyone who identifies as a woman regardless of her race, immigration status, religious affiliation, criminal background, or sobriety. We have no intake requirements for entry, so vulnerable women with trauma histories and severe ment
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Meals: hunger and food insecurity are the primary reasons women come to eat the hearty, healty, and delicious food that relieves their pangs of hunger and meets the nutritional needs for women with little or no other access to good food. Each day starts with fresh fruit and hot cereal that gives women energy and determination to improve their lives in other ways. Lunches are served restaurant-style and always include a lean protein entre, a vegetarian option, whole grains, vegetables, salad, fruit, and dessert. Meals are enjoyed in a warm, welcoming dining community where staff and volunteers take time to engage with guests to help solve problems and develop positive relationships.
$1,430,682 spent27% of program spendingGuest services: all services and care are given in a trauma-informed manner. The shelter is open monday through saturday, throughout the year, from 7 am to 2 pm. We provide hot showers, laundry, toiletries and emergency clothing, basic needs all while coordinating and delivering effective services that help women achieve greater stability. Free on-site medical care is provided by boston healthcare for the homeless. We offer helath & wellness workshops, group outings, support groups, art classes, meditation, literacy & writing classes, and much more to empower women. Monthly birthday parties & holidays are celebrated with festive meals and gifts.
$1,047,156 spent20% of program spendingAdvocacy: advocates meet individually giving expert advice and assistance on housing, mental health, finances, and other critical concerns. We visit women hospitalized or homebount, and accompany women to medical, housing, and legal appointmnets. Emergency funds pay for urgent utility bills, back rent, prescriptions, transportation to appointments, and more. Preventing homelessness is a priority so we work with every woman recently housed to live on a budget, help those at risk of eviction, or need to move from unsafe or substandard housing, and those who do not qualify for public housing assistance. An advocate helps homeless guests complete applications and handle the complicated and lengthy process to obtain low income housing.
$1,569,529 spent30% of program spendingWellness medical professionals offer guests free, on-site healthcare services for urgent and chronic health conditions. We offer dual recovery programming for guests with mental illness and substance use disorders--at least one recovery class is available every day, six days a week. A psychiatric nurse practitioner, behavioral health clinician, and clinical psychiatrist assist our guests by building trusting relationships, conducting soft assessments, and crafting individualized plans. Wlp also provides referrals and direct entry to hospitals and outside programs. Wlp's integrated wellness programming also includes therapeutic art and movement classes that are specifically designed to boost our guests' mind-body connection, improve their mental health, and develop their emotional regulation.
$1,223,165 spent$117,075 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,270,532.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $7.4M to $10M (+35%).
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: 2022 5% · 2024 14% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 100 funders, grant income rose $561k → $2.4M.
22 of 235 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 LUNCH PLACE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 235 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 LUNCH PLACE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
44% 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 LUNCH PLACE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 25% · 2019 21% · 2020 26% · 2021 16% · 2022 13% · 2023 16% — 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
57% of WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
69% of WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Government funding WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$2.4M
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 WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 LUNCH PLACE 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 LUNCH PLACE INC?
- WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 235 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,815,982 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,752,037). 141 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC have?
- IRS filings report 235 organizations giving $15,815,982 in grants to WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC, 141 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,752,037 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE 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 235 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