Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM INC
WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $415,571 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($410,037). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.7M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $416k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What World Wide Web Consortium Inc does
Mission
Making the web work for everyone. W3C brings together global stakeholders to develop open standards that enable a World Wide Web that connects and empowers humanity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Development of web standards: standards developed by the consortium are adopted voluntarily. They must therefore be of the highest quality. In addition, they must meet real world needs, including overcoming the many barriers faced by disadvantaged members of society. Web standards must balance the diverse needs of industry, academia, civil society, and technologists, for the ultimate purpose of serving all of humanity. Further, because the web is a global infrastructure, the consortium must find solutions that address a range of regional and cultural requirements. The consortium conducts its work in public and seeks wide review on an ongoing basis to help ensure that wide-range perspectives inform consensus decisions about future web technology. In addition, the consortium's process requires that all standards undergo review by chartered groups with expertise in accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security; these groups help ensure that the standards meet the social needs that motivate the consortium's mission. This is known in the consortium as "horizontal review," because it is applied across standardization activities. Research: the consortium, with partners and…
$6,033,161 spent$8,107,539 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,033,161.
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.
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 $861k to $4.9M (+467%).
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.
8% of WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Seth Dobbs
CEO/president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 482 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$24k
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 WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM 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 WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM INC?
- WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $415,571 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($410,037). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $415,571 in grants to WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM INC?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $410,037 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 3 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