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Center for Community Recovery Innovations Inc

Ccri awards grants that support the creation or preservation of affordable sober housing in massachusetts.

$996k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.1MHealth$1.1MCommunity Improvement$200kCrime & Legal$25kOther$845k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $294k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $678k
$33,062
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGH POINTSEMCOA (NEW BEDFORD)$200,000
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION SPRINGFIELD$141,164
STEPPINGSTONE INC$137,000
GAAMHA INC$100,000
NEIGHBORHOOD WORKS SOUTHERN MA$100,000
POWER FORWARD INC$44,778
LAZARUS HOUSE INC$36,563
HOUSING SUPPORTS NEWBURYPORT$33,672
SELF ESTEEM BOSTON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC$33,062
GILLY'S HOUSE$28,562
GANDARA CENTER$26,281
NAMASTAY SOBER INC$26,150
555 MERRIMACK STREET LLC (AKA COALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE)$25,000
CASA ESPERANZA INC$14,974
SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE$13,452
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEREMIAH'S INN: $75k → 11%SOUTH MIDDLESEX NON-PROFIT HOUSING: $127k → 8%MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION SPRINGFIELD: $141k → 17%SOUTH MIDDLESEX NON-PROFIT HOUSING: $66k → 8%JEREMIAH'S INN: $25k → 11%MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION SPRINGFIELD: $75k → 17%SOUTH MIDDLESEX NON-PROFIT HOUSING: $52k → 8%MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION SPRINGFIELD: $62k → 17%SOUTH MIDDLESEX NON-PROFIT HOUSING: $19k → 8%MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION SPRINGFIELD: $57k → 17%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE: $19k → 16%MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION SPRINGFIELD: $24k → 17%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE: $13k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE INC: $75k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC: $33k → 16%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES: $105k → 11%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC: $33k → 16%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 11%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC: $25k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC: $23k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC: $23k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INNC: $19k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE BOSTON: $99k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE BOSTON: $26k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 25 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
16

Total granted

$3.4M
$856k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+22%

Still filing today

92%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $306k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $359k · revenue +148%
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +197%
  • GI
    GAAMHA INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $275k · revenue +152%

Funded once

  • FB
    FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $175k · revenue +107%
  • SH
    SAGE HOUSING INC
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -46% · 67% of their budget
  • OH
    OPENING HEAVENS DOOR MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -54% · 71% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lowell Area Housing Inc Dba Schneider Manor
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2
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

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3
Granada House Inc

To provide residential-based drug and alcohol rehabilitation support services in the greater boston massachusetts area.

Health
4
Gavin Foundation Inc

Gavin foundation provides substance abuse education, counseling, housing and support services for individuals located in the south boston area of massachusetts and surrounding communities.

Philanthropy
5
Anchor House Inc

To promote long term sobriety for men who seek help in their addiction.

Health
6
Transition House Inc

Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…

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7
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc

The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.

Human Services
8
Harbor House Inc

Alcohol drug rehab and halfway house.

Health
9
Helping Hands Outreach Ministries Inc

Transitional and permanent supportive housing - provides shelter in the greater Manchester NH area. Services include housing, counseling (including substance abuse counseling), job search assistance, etc.

Housing & Shelter
10
ValleyBridge House Inc

Residential treatment centers that offer programs to enable individuals to make the necessary changes to recover from substance abuse and lead productive lives.

Health
11
Bay Cove Human Services Inc

Bay cove human services' mission is to partner with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential. bay cove pursues this mission by providing individualized and compassionate services to people facing the challenges…

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12
Magnolia House Nh

The mission of this organization is to be acknowledged by our communitities as an organization providing structured and safe residential sober living programs to those struggling with addiction that is based on integrity, compassion and…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Francis House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jewish Home for Aged Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr14%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr13%54%35–55yr14%13%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
11%
3,369/30,625

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
35/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC — $359,195 · Human ServicesMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INCJEWISH HOME FOR AGED FOUNDATION INC — $263,625 · Human ServicesJEWISH HOME FOR AGED FOUNDATION…Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc — $155,562 · Human ServicesSelf Esteem Boston Educational …BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesBROOKVIEW HOUSE INCNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INCJEREMIAH'S INN INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'S INN INCROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC+1 more — $31,952 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC — $325,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVIC…Housing Support Inc — $195,779 · Housing & ShelterHousing Support IncFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC — $175,000 · Housing & ShelterFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING …SAGE HOUSING INC — $125,000 · Housing & ShelterSAGE HOUSING INCCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC — $124,896 · Housing & ShelterCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE…Providence Ministries for the Needy Inc — $70,600 · Housing & ShelterProvidence Ministries for t…+4 more — $97,766 · Housing & Shelter+4 moreHIGH POINT TREATMENT CENTER INC — $200,000 · HealthHIGH POINT TREATMENT CENTER…STEPPINGSTONE INC — $173,306 · HealthSTEPPINGSTONE INCJOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE — $157,750 · HealthJOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSELOWELL HOUSE INC — $125,000 · HealthLOWELL HOUSE INCVICTORY PROGRAMS INC — $88,564 · HealthVICTORY PROGRAMS INCEMH Recovery Inc — $81,940 · HealthEMH Recovery IncPOWER FORWARD INC — $54,500 · HealthGillys House Inc — $53,562 · HealthCASA ESPERANZA INC — $44,037 · Health+6 more — $130,035 · Health+6 moreGAAMHA INC — $275,000 · OtherGAAMHA INCDISMAS HOUSE OF MA INC — $195,260 · OtherDISMAS HOUSE OF MA IN…OPENING HEAVENS DOOR MINISTRIES INC — $100,000 · OtherOPENING HEAVENS DOOR …St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — $99,450 · OtherSt Mary's Center for …GREATER NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN CENTER — $50,000 · OtherGREATER NEW LIFE CHRI…GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $40,221 · Other+4 more — $84,657 · Other+4 moreALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $75,000 · Community ImprovementACT LAWRENCE INC — $75,000 · Community ImprovementVETERANS INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementLATIN AMERICAN HEALTH ALLIANCE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $24,870 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$1,260,334Housing & Shelter$1,114,041Health$1,108,694Other$844,588Community Improvement$200,000Crime & Legal$24,870

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC — $359,195 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC — $325,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGAAMHA INC — $275,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR AGED FOUNDATION INC — $263,625 over 4y, 75% of budgetHIGH POINT TREATMENT CENTER INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHousing Support Inc — $195,779 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC — $175,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE INC — $173,306 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE — $157,750 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSelf Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc — $155,562 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetBROOKVIEW HOUSE INC — $150,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSAGE HOUSING INC — $125,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC — $125,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetLOWELL HOUSE INC — $125,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC — $124,896 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOPENING HEAVENS DOOR MINISTRIES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetJEREMIAH'S INN INC — $100,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSt Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — $99,450 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVICTORY PROGRAMS INC — $88,564 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEMH Recovery Inc — $81,940 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetACT LAWRENCE INC — $75,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetProvidence Ministries for the Needy Inc — $70,600 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetPOWER FORWARD INC — $54,500 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetGillys House Inc — $53,562 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetVETERANS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCASA ESPERANZA INC — $44,037 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $40,221 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC — $36,563 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORCESTER COMMON GROUND INC — $33,762 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $31,952 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE NEW ENGLAND AND NEW JERSEY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOAK HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATI — $25,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBRIDGEWELL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MEGAN HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN HEALTH ALLIANCE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $24,870 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetVineyard House Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetRURAL DEVELOPMENT INC — $2,441 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way Of Massach…Eastern Bank Foundati…Health Resources in A…Rockland Trust Charit…Boston Foundation IncCummings Foundation G…Rize Massachusetts Fo…Amelia Peabody Charit…Berkshire Bank Founda…Agnes M Lindsay TrustArbella Insurance Fou…The Harborone Foundat…
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay IncMA38.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Health Resources in Action Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rize Massachusetts Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Arbella Insurance Foundation · The Harborone Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Center for Community Recovery Innovations Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Bridgewell Inc — 85% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association Inc — 66% of income from government
  • Casa Esperanza Inc — 59% of income from government
  • Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Gaamha Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Gandara Mental Health Center Inc — 55% of income from government
  • Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Act Lawrence Inc — 44% of income from government
  • St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Brookview House Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
  • John Ashford Link House — 25% of income from government
  • Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
  • High Point Treatment Center Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Rural Development Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
  • The Megan House Foundation Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Emh Recovery Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Hope House Inc — 13% of income from government
  • North Star Family Services Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Worcester Common Ground Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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