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WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC

WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,930,988 to it, the largest being GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($3,118,236). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$41M
Funders on record
38
Grants received
$6.9M
Net assets
$8.6M
19/38 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Worcester Community Action Council Inc does

Mission

The mission of the worcester community action council, inc. Is helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Liheap - low income home energy assistance program. The program includes a fuel assistance program that provides assistance with winter heating bills for low income homeowners and renters. Energy assistance participants are serviced at wcac's main office in worcester, ma and six outreach sites in the council's service area. Wcac processed applications from 15,988 households in fy 2025. Wcac offers energy conservation services for 1 to 4 family unit buildings, occupied by low income households, including weatherization, heating system repair and replacement and appliance management services. $15,506,554 in federal funds was paid directly to fuel vendors for home heating assistance. Total fuel clients served from all sources: 17,672.

    $28,803,583 spentof which $12,948,220 as grants$30,364,195 earned by the program
    76% of program spending
  2. Head start and early head start services in southern worcester county of massachusetts for eligible children 0-5 years of age. Head start provides a developmental approach to enable children to achieve educational and social competence by providing for intellectual development, physical and mental health, nutrition and other factors. Capacity is now at 60 early head start and 203 head start. Actual enrollment at year-end including turnover during the year, was 328 for both programs, 236 head start and 72 early head start.

    $3,578,400 spent$4,313,220 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  3. The job and education center in fiscal year 2025 served 648 participants. The services provided high school equivalency test preparation classes, career pathway training, employment programs, positive youth development programs and other workforce development initiatives. This past summer the jec had 448 youth participate in summer jobs in partnership with almost 70 employers.

    $3,901,249 spent$3,983,343 earned by the program
    10% of program spending
  4. Various programs supporting the community with education, client relief, services to young parents, healthy living, financial empowerment and advocacy services.

    $1,715,660 spentof which $246,652 as grants$1,217,376 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,998,892.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($20M) Expenses 100 ($19M) Net assets 100 ($2.4M)2018 Revenue 112 ($22M) Expenses 109 ($21M) Net assets 134 ($3.2M)2019 Revenue 127 ($25M) Expenses 121 ($23M) Net assets 193 ($4.6M)2020 Revenue 115 ($23M) Expenses 116 ($23M) Net assets 194 ($4.6M)2021 Revenue 129 ($25M) Expenses 129 ($25M) Net assets 205 ($4.9M)2022 Revenue 211 ($41M) Expenses 206 ($40M) Net assets 255 ($6.1M)2023 Revenue 220 ($43M) Expenses 215 ($42M) Net assets 313 ($7.5M)2024 Revenue 221 ($43M) Expenses 222 ($43M) Net assets 325 ($7.7M)2025 Revenue 211 ($41M) Expenses 208 ($40M) Net assets 361 ($8.6M)
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Revenue (211)Expenses (208)Net assets (361)Peer revenue range

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 $8.9M to $15M (+64%).

$3.7M
$4.2M
$5.9M
$6.5M
$8.5M
$8.9M
$15M
$15M
$15M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

3% of WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,400 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$184k
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$802k
’18
$1.4M
’19
$44k
’20
$238k
’21
$1.2M
’22
$1.4M
’23
$264k
’24
$849k
’25
1.5
months of
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

Kristen Lemire

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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Listed222323232220212126
Joined·+1+3+6+0+1+4+1+6
No longer listed·03613311
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $145k → $1.6M.

5 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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

WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

88% 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 WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC.

45%
largest funder
80%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 49% · 2019 39% · 2020 53% · 2021 72% · 2022 57% · 2023 43% — broadly stable.

“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

33% of WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

84% of WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC has grown faster than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31.7M on record.

Federal$31.7M
grants $31.7Mcontracts $0
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  • Department of Health and Human Services$31.7M

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC?
WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,930,988 to it, the largest being GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($3,118,236). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $6,930,988 in grants to WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC?
GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,118,236 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 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