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WRITEBOSTON INC

EIN 46-1255108 JAMAICA PLAIN, MA

Revenue 2024
$3,179,019
Expenses 2024
$1,472,151

Program services were 64.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B19
Classification
2000
Street
555 AMORY ST STE 3R

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

See Statement O for description of programs and services.

  • Professional Development Services - WriteBoston provides high-quality professional development services to schools, districts, and education organizations that support low-income and linguistically and ethnically diverse youth. Schools and districts engage WriteBoston to respond to their specific literacy needs. WriteBoston offerings range from workshops, to follow-up coaching, and thought partnering with leadership.

    Expenses $392,523 · Revenue $158,000

  • Teens in print - Teens in Print (TiP) is a writing program created to amplify the marginalized voices of eighth to twelfth-grade Boston students. Students connect with peers from across Boston, learn about writing and media, and publish writing on the website teensinprint.com.

    Expenses $337,113

  • Summer Journalism - The Summer Journalism Institute is a six-week program that engages 25-35 students in writing skill-building, career and cultural exploration, and community building.

    Expenses $224,671

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Abdi Ali

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $130,671
    From this org
    $125,546
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,125
    Hours/week
    40

  • Caren Arnstein

    Director Dev Commitee Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Celeste Lee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Corey Allen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Claudius Zorokong

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Nick Martin

    Director Governance Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Deborah Spencer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Caitlin Dodge

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • James Tierney

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Doug Banks

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Phillip Page

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jenny Leopold

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,179,019
    Expenses
    $1,472,151
    Contributions
    $2,799,419
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $956,104
    Expenses
    $1,060,239
    Contributions
    $718,643
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,144,094
    Expenses
    $998,439
    Contributions
    $954,348
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,198,259
    Expenses
    $883,356
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,867,072

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,419,321
    Expenses
    $835,712
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,554,274

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $708,442
    Expenses
    $861,749
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,107,457

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $718,893
    Expenses
    $817,405
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,110,663

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,260,523
    Expenses
    $635,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,245,206

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $892,228
    Expenses
    $856,162
    Assets (EOY)
    $545,095

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2013

Tax period
1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014
Principal officer
Jacob Murray
Mailing address
7 Palmer StreetRoxbury MA 021192427

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.