Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC
BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,186 to it, the largest being THOMAS H & MARY WILLIAMS SHOEMAKER FD ($87,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $897k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $293k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Beacon Hill Friends House Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to embody the quaker principles of faith, simplicity, integrity, community, and social responsibility in order to nurture and call forth the light in all of us. Beacon hill friends house fulfills its mission by: providing a center where friends and others meet, worship, and learn; advancing and fostering the principles of the religious society of friends; offering opportunities for leadership development, personal deepening, and collective action; and maintaining a diverse, intentional, residential community guided by friends principles.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The agency is a center for quaker educational activities, the home of beacon hill friends meeting, and a residential intentional community inspired by quaker principles. The agency serves its mission by providing residencies, worship in the quaker tradition, hospitality, and quaker education to cultivate community, nurture spiritual deepening, and empower quaker social action. The agency considers these activities to be its sole program. Residencies - the agency provides residencies for up to 20 adults with an education in quaker values and cooperative living. Meals and household chores are shared, and bi-monthly (twice per month) house meetings operate via quaker decision-making processes. The agency strives to create a diverse and inclusive space for people of all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations, races, and cultural experiences. Some residents are members of the board of directors. Beacon hill friends meeting - the agency hosts beacon hill friends meeting, an inclusive quaker congregation. Hospitality - the agency provides space for mission-aligned community organizations to meet, worship, cultivate community, and learn. The agency also provides 1 - 2 short-term…
$432,946 spent$383,163 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $432,946.
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.
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 $2.1M to $2.4M (+17%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2022 8% · 2023 22% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Newman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $83k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE 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
BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
51% 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 BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 78% · 2022 60% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
40% of BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC?
- BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,186 to it, the largest being THOMAS H & MARY WILLIAMS SHOEMAKER FD ($87,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $293,186 in grants to BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC?
- THOMAS H & MARY WILLIAMS SHOEMAKER FD is the largest funder on record, with $87,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE 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.
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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 11 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing