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WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC

WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,050 to it, the largest being TechFoundation Inc ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$54k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$43k
Net assets
$246k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Wts Boston Charitable Fund Inc does

Mission

To celebrate, encourage and further womens participation and advancement in the field of transportation through the creation of suitable commemorations of such participation and the establishment of and support for programs, educational resources, scholarships and events that

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scholarships for encouraging and supporting women and girls to pursue public or private transportaion-related careers.

    $14,000 spentof which $14,000 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Encourage and further womens participation and advancement in the field of transportation by establishing support for programs, education resources and events.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,000.

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 ($103k) Expenses 100 ($38k) Net assets 100 ($137k)2018 Revenue 74 ($77k) Expenses 288 ($109k) Net assets 77 ($105k)2019 Revenue 185 ($191k) Expenses 468 ($176k) Net assets 87 ($119k)2020 Revenue 14 ($14k) Expenses 5 ($2k) Net assets 96 ($131k)2021 Revenue 29 ($30k) Expenses 37 ($14k) Net assets 108 ($147k)2022 Revenue 34 ($35k) Expenses 37 ($14k) Net assets 123 ($168k)2023 Revenue 39 ($41k) Expenses 42 ($16k) Net assets 141 ($193k)2024 Revenue 30 ($31k) Expenses 43 ($16k) Net assets 152 ($208k)2025 Revenue 52 ($54k) Expenses 43 ($16k) Net assets 180 ($246k)
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Revenue (52)Expenses (43)Net assets (180)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 2024 to 2025, from $208k to $246k (+18%).

$137k
$105k
$119k
$131k
$147k
$168k
$193k
$208k
$246k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,568 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$66k
’17
−$32k
’18
$15k
’19
$12k
’20
$16k
’21
$21k
’22
$25k
’23
$15k
’24
$38k
’25
183
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.

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Listed776777777
Joined·+1+0+1+2+2+0+0+0
No longer listed·11022000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $50.

Funder
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'25*
total
TechFoundation Incunclassified
$25k
funders
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $50k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Womens Transportation Seminar Greater Boston Chpt). These are real filings, and they are not money WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC raised.

From the IRS filings of WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND 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

WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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

58% 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 WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC.

58%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

58% of WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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MA

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

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’20
Massachusetts out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,984 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin70% · top quartile
Months of reserve183.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,984 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC

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In Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
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

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Women's Transportation Seminar Grea · exempt
  • Wts Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC?
WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,050 to it, the largest being TechFoundation Inc ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $43,050 in grants to WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC.
Who is the largest funder of WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC?
TechFoundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing