Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WRITING THROUGH
WRITING THROUGH (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $176,190 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($67,950). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $176k
- Net assets
- $40k
What Writing Through does
Mission
The Corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for any and all charitable or educational purposes that may qualify it as an organization described in section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended from time to time the Code and exempt it from federal income tax under section 501a of the Code or the corresponding provision of any future federal income tax law. The Corporation shall accomplish such purposes by: a improving the lives of financially emotionally and or physically at risk children young adults and their families b providing educational opportunities for financially emotionally and or physically at risk children young adults and their families; c providing schools and educational shelters with supplementary educational workshops to be included within their existing curricula; and d engaging in any other activities that are appropriate and proper under section 501c3 of the Code.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
After several years of pandemic related global closures 2025 was a year of growth and progress for Writing Through. We continued to work with our existing Partners while adding new ones in Cambodia the US Vietnam Mexico and Africa. Revised governmental regulations in Singapore have forced us to temporarily postpone our work there while we investigate how we can once again bring our programming back to those Singaporeans in need. But while that has been difficult we had the great pleasure of reinvigorating our work in Vietnam with a new Partner eager to expand the collaboration which has already borne fruit. Writing Through also began new partnerships in Massachusetts with a center for aging and in Arizona working with High School students on the Navajo reservation.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 $21k to $58k (+179%).
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.
90% of WRITING THROUGH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (24% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Susan R Guiney
Executive Director Board Member
Board chair
Wendee Wolfson
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $9k → $24k.
6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 WRITING THROUGH’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
WRITING THROUGH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 WRITING THROUGH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 62% · 2022 25% · 2023 32% — 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
80% of WRITING THROUGH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
66% of WRITING THROUGH's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $59k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
WRITING THROUGH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,330 membership benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,330 membership benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding WRITING THROUGH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8k on record.
- Department of State$8k
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 WRITING THROUGH
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.
Public support
100%
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 WRITING THROUGH: 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 WRITING THROUGH?
- WRITING THROUGH (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $176,190 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($67,950). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WRITING THROUGH have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $176,190 in grants to WRITING THROUGH, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WRITING THROUGH?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $67,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WRITING THROUGH 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 9 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