Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 253 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,551,004 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,251,868). 147 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $100M
- Funders on record
- 253
- Grants received
- $41M
- Net assets
- $83M
What Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Medical, dental, behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services provided to adults and families experiencing homelessness in approximately 30 family and adult shelters, hospitals, and day center clinics throughout greater boston.
$54,023,866 spent$38,444,715 earned by the program67% of program spendingMedical recuperative care unit is a 124 bed facility that provides 24 hour medical and nursing care to homeless adults recovering from acute illness or injuries with approximately 40,803 patient days in fy 2025.
$27,040,920 spent$32,331,792 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $81,064,786.
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 2023 to 2024, from $86M to $91M (+6%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 12% · 2019 11% · 2022 28% · 2023 27% · 2024 15% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (17% 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.
Board chair
Barbara Blakeney
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 105 funders, grant income rose $3.7M → $6.3M.
36 of 253 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 253 funders by total. 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
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
64% 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 BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 18% · 2019 22% · 2020 18% · 2021 19% · 2022 19% · 2023 18% — 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
45% of BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
91% of BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC is better cushioned than half of the 180 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 180 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $57.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$57.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC?
- BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 253 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,551,004 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,251,868). 147 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 253 organizations giving $40,551,004 in grants to BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC, 147 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,251,868 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM 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 253 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing