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Who funds housing in Massachusetts

Housing funding in Massachusetts is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Pine Street Inn Inc leads, and the money reaches 674 groups. Massachusetts's housing organizations are comparatively well-backed, averaging 5 funders each.

$1.2B
granted
674
organizations
69%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of housing in Massachusetts

The funders giving the most to housing organizations in Massachusetts, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$137M2United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc$57M3Boston Foundation Inc$46M4Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation$40M5Rth Mission Park Realty Corporation$33M6Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc$31M7Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated$22M8American Online Giving Foundation Inc$18M9Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc$17M10National Philanthropic Trust$16M

Housing organizations in Massachusetts that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

664 other housing organizations$795M
Pine Street Inn Inc$98MRoxbury Tenants of Harvard Association Inc$47MHorizons for Homeless Children$47M

How to find housing funders in Massachusetts

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in Massachusetts

    The funders giving the most to housing in Massachusetts are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc, Boston Foundation Inc. A funder already writing housing checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.

  2. 2
    See who funds organizations like yours

    Open the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.

  3. 3
    Add the out-of-state funders reaching in

    31% of housing money in Massachusetts comes from funders elsewhere, so national housing funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Massachusetts.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a housing nonprofit in Massachusetts?
Start with the funders already giving to housing in Massachusetts, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc, Boston Foundation Inc. Then look at who funds the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Massachusetts from out of state.
Who is the largest housing funder in Massachusetts?
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to housing organizations in Massachusetts, $137M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to housing in Massachusetts?
$1.2B reached 674 housing organizations in Massachusetts, from 3,306 funders. 69% came from funders also based in Massachusetts.
How recent is this data?
It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines
Giving abroad
which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.