Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WORK INCORPORATED
WORK INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $849,353 to it, the largest being SOURCEAMERICA ($665,213). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $56M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $849k
- Net assets
- $45M
What Work Incorporated does
Mission
It is the mission of work,inc. To ensure that all individuals with disabilities have the ability to grow, the right to make choices, access to education, and the opportunity to participate in community life via meaningful work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Industrial and commercial: we provide direct employment to over 100 individuals with disabilities at more than 20 work sites. Our services include custodial, total facility management, mail room, food service, landscaping, and snow removal. Our customers are federal government and commercial customers located in the massachusetts cities of boston, natick, andover, springfield, milford, natick, new bedford, charlestown, and, at other work sites in the states of vt, ny, and ct.
$15,805,381 spent$15,494,226 earned by the program35% of program spendingResidential: we provide residential support services to approximately 200 individuals with developmental disabilities, mental illness and/or significant physical disabilities, through two distinct program models: supported living and 24 hour sharded living and residential group homes, independent living. The supported living program provides customized support to individuals living independently to address their unique needs. Our services include but are not limited to personal care, medical advocacy, financial assistance, social skills training, counseling and support. The 24 hour residential program serves hearing and deaf individuals at approximately 25 group homes and has received certification through the carf and quest process. Our programs serve individuals from multiple state funders including dds, mrc, mcb, dmh, dta, and private funders.
$22,101,094 spent$2,994,715 earned by the program49% of program spendingEmployment: we provide individual supported employment, group supported employment, and community based employment and day-habilitation services to more than 350 individuals with a variety of disabilities including those who are deaf and hard of hearing. As part of our pioneering job placement program and flagship career placement program services, we provide career counseling, situational assessments, planning, job search assistance, job coaching, and ongoing supports as needed. Our day programs are located in boston, quincy, fitchburg and new bedford. Our expanded service area now includes constituents from dds, mrc, dta, mcb, dmh, while also accepting private placements.
$6,855,336 spent$21,650 earned by the program15% of program spendingTransportation: we provide transportation services to individuals with disabilities to and from our residential, employment and day programs.
$607,402 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,369,213.
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 2024 to 2025, from $50M to $55M (+11%).
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 56% · 2018 47% · 2019 57% · 2020 59% · 2021 61% · 2022 64% · 2023 65% · 2024 59% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of WORK INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Sharon Smith
Chief executive officer
Board chair
James Flanagan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $240k → $5k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 WORK INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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
WORK INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 WORK INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 93% · 2019 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 41% · 2022 27% · 2023 48% — 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
22% of WORK INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
WORK INCORPORATED draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
WORK INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 274 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WORK INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $279.0M on record — $49.0M federal, $230.0M state.
- Department of Defense$22.3M
- National Archives and Records Administration$10.2M
- Department of Transportation$7.1M
- Environmental Protection Agency$4.5M
- Department of the Treasury$3.2M
- General Services Administration$1.0M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$219.0M
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$10.6M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$256k
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$125k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$90
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 WORK INCORPORATED
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- West Roxbury Residences Inc · exempt
- Supportive Living Program Inc · exempt
- Work Housing Corporation · exempt
- Facilities Management and Maintenance Inc · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORK INCORPORATED: 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 WORK INCORPORATED?
- WORK INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $849,353 to it, the largest being SOURCEAMERICA ($665,213). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORK INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $849,353 in grants to WORK INCORPORATED, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORK INCORPORATED?
- SOURCEAMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $665,213 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORK INCORPORATED 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 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