Women in Philanthropy of Western Massachusetts

What Women in Philanthropy of Western Massachusetts does

Women in Philanthropy of Western Massachusetts (WiP) is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit membership organization headquartered in Northampton, Massachusetts, serving philanthropy and nonprofit professionals across the Western Massachusetts region. The organization functions as a regional professional association, providing a structured community for practitioners in the nonprofit sector through its membership program, a recurring monthly meeting series, and a curated job posting board targeted at the regional nonprofit labor market.

WiP monetizes primarily through recurring membership dues paid by individual professionals and member organizations, with membership functioning as the gateway to the monthly meeting series and the job board. The organization supplements dues revenue with transactional fees from its job posting service, charging $40 per posting for members and $75 for non-members — a tiered pricing structure that explicitly incentivizes membership conversion and monetizes the WiP mailing list as a regional recruitment distribution channel. Headcount sits in the 1-10 employee range, consistent with a small, volunteer-supported regional association. Distribution is community-led and geographically concentrated, with regional employers such as Amherst College, Bay Path University, Berkshire Agricultural Ventures, Springfield Museums, Legacy Lifecare, Martin Luther King Jr. Family Services, and Gould Farm posting roles through the platform.

The organization runs its operations on Wild Apricot, an off-the-shelf SaaS membership management platform that handles member records, dues collection, event registration, and the job board workflow. There is no evidence of proprietary technology development, AI/ML capability, custom integrations, or technology partnerships beyond the standard Wild Apricot deployment. The business model is operationally simple: dues plus transaction fees, governed by a small staff and a member volunteer base, with no fundraising events, grant programs, or programmatic philanthropic distributions disclosed in the available data.

Name

Women in Philanthropy of Western Massachusetts

Legal name

Women in Philanthropy of Western Massachusetts

Website

https://wipwm.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Women in Philanthropy of Western Massachusetts is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit membership organization serving philanthropy and nonprofit professionals in Western Massachusetts through monthly professional development meetings, networking, and a regional nonprofit job board.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Membership Services

NAICS

Professional Organizations (81392), Business Associations (813910)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Association & Society Conference Management (Nonprofit, Professional Bodies) (THAHACAA)

Keywords

• Nonprofit professional development
• Membership networking community
• Philanthropy career resources
• Regional nonprofit job board
• Nonprofit membership association

Headquarters

HQ city

Northampton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Membership Fees: Revenue generated from annual or periodic membership dues from nonprofit professionals joining WiP for professional development and networking opportunities.
2. Job Posting Fees: Organizations pay to post job openings: $40 for current WiP members and $75 for non-members. Postings are distributed to the entire WiP mailing list each Wednesday and remain on the website.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

WiP is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit membership association that sells annual/periodic memberships to nonprofit and philanthropy professionals in Western Massachusetts. Members gain access to monthly professional development meetings with featured speakers and a regional nonprofit job board. The organization also sells paid job posting placements to employers (member rate $40, non-member rate $75), distributed to its mailing list each Wednesday and listed on its website.

Product overview

Women in Philanthropy of Western Massachusetts (WiP) is a 501(c)(6) non-profit networking organization that serves non-profit professionals in the Western Massachusetts region. The organization operates primarily as a membership-based networking and professional development community. Its core offerings include a membership program, monthly professional development meetings, a job posting service for member and non-member organizations, and a job search board for job seekers. The organization is powered by Wild Apricot membership software for its website and member management. WiP does not operate a technology product platform; rather, it functions as a professional community and job board for development and fundraising professionals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• WiP Membership Program
• Monthly Professional Development Meeting Series
• Job Posting Service
• Job Search Board

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Wild ApricotcoreTechnology or IntegrationWild Apricot provides the website and membership management platform powering WiP's online presence, including membership enrollment, event registration, and job posting functionality.
• Member Organizations (Nonprofit Employers)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorWiP serves as a distribution channel for member organizations seeking to recruit nonprofit talent. Member organizations (Gould Farm, Amherst College, Berkshire Agricultural Ventures, Legacy Lifecare, Martin Luther King Jr. Family Services, Bay Path University, Springfield Museums) post jobs to reach WiP's mailing list of nonprofit professionals.

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Philanthropy Massachusetts: Massachusetts-based association of grantmakers and philanthropy professionals; directly comparable as a state/regional membership body serving the same mission-relevant population in an overlapping geography.
• Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers: National membership network of regional philanthropy-serving associations; structurally analogous to WiP as a peer-to-peer model run for and by grantmakers and philanthropy support professionals.
• AFP Western Massachusetts Chapter: The local AFP chapter serving Western Massachusetts, representing the most direct competitive overlap in geography, target member (development professionals), and programming model for WiP.
• Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN): National membership network of emerging nonprofit leaders with local chapters, offering mentoring, networking, and career resources in a model closely paralleling WiP's community + job-board orientation.
• Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP): National professional association for fundraising and philanthropy professionals, operating through local chapters that offer the same combination of networking, professional development, and career resources WiP provides, but at a national scale.
• Women in Development New York: New York-based membership association of women in fundraising and nonprofit development, virtually identical in mission, programming, and member demographic to WiP and a benchmark for what a scaled version of WiP could look like.

Broad incumbents

• National Council of Nonprofits: National network of state and regional nonprofit associations serving as a larger, umbrella-style incumbent in the same nonprofit-professional support category where WiP operates.

Regional players

• Center for Nonprofit Excellence: Regional capacity-building and training hub for nonprofits; offers professional development and resource programming analogous to WiP's monthly meetings but in a different metropolitan market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/WiPWesternMass
• Facebookfacebook.com/WiP.of.WMass
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/women-in-philanthropy-of-western-massachusetts

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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