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WORKING FOR WORCESTER INC

WORKING FOR WORCESTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,874 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ($77,229). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$92k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$333k
Net assets
$127k
8/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Working for Worcester Inc does

Mission

Working for Worcester is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization entirely run by college students dedicated to mobilizing Worcester students to improve recreational infrastructure and opportunities within neighborhoods across Worcester, Massachusetts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. On April 5, 2025 over 1,000 volunteers participated in a day of service building playgrounds and providing maintenance and clean-ups for 20 sites in Worcester.

    $113,264 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $113,264.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($130k) Expenses 100 ($116k) Net assets 100 ($97k)2023 Revenue 133 ($173k) Expenses 79 ($92k) Net assets 184 ($178k)2024 Revenue 102 ($132k) Expenses 139 ($162k) Net assets 153 ($148k)2025 Revenue 71 ($92k) Expenses 98 ($114k) Net assets 131 ($127k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (71)Expenses (98)Net assets (131)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 $97k to $178k (+84%).

$97k
$178k
$148k
$127k
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WORKING FOR WORCESTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,031 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’22
$81k
’23
−$30k
’24
−$21k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $10k → $69k.

1 of 14 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 WORKING FOR WORCESTER 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

WORKING FOR WORCESTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

38% 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 WORKING FOR WORCESTER INC.

23%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 88% · 2021 67% · 2022 37% · 2023 29% — 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 WORKING FOR WORCESTER INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

60% of WORKING FOR WORCESTER INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
MO
KS
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

WORKING FOR WORCESTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−23% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like WORKING FOR WORCESTER 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORKING FOR WORCESTER 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 WORKING FOR WORCESTER INC?
WORKING FOR WORCESTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,874 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ($77,229). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WORKING FOR WORCESTER INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $332,874 in grants to WORKING FOR WORCESTER INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORKING FOR WORCESTER INC?
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $77,229 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORKING FOR WORCESTER 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 14 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