Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc
Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,104,548 to it, the largest being NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($312,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $290k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $512k
What Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc does
Mission
The mission of the Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo, Inc. is to reclaim the dormant, nearly lost, language of the Wampanoag Tribal Nation and to return fluency to its members as the principle means of expression.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Wpanak Language Reclamation Project (WLRP) proudly served 110 students of tribal households through 17 intergenerational workbook courses, immersion courses, and immersion nests. Courses and nests were offered in-person and remotely in a variety of locations to strengthen accessibility and honor tribal diversity. Highlights include: -69 classes offered to the Elders Lunch and Learn Program hosted by the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe at their government center -Provided an immersion nest to youth in Mashpee Middle High School -Courses provided in all 4 locations of participating Wampanoag communities (Aquinnah, Plymouth, Mashpee, New Bedford, Zoom) -Distributed over 100 illustrated childrens books and phrase books to tribal households -Provided online language access to 253 tribal families on our online learning platform Kun8seeh
$213,852 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $213,852.
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 2017 to 2018, from $219k to $720k (+229%).
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: 2017 46% · 2018 83% · 2019 51% · 2020 43% · 2023 30% · 2024 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Brian Weeden
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $33k → $174k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo 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
Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 57% · 2019 75% · 2020 65% · 2021 41% · 2022 26% · 2023 46% — 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
44% of Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc is better cushioned than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.5M
- Department of Education$1.4M
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 Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo 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 Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc?
- Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,104,548 to it, the largest being NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($312,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,104,548 in grants to Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc?
- NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $312,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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