Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC
BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,595,573 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($746,745). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 96
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $81M
What Boston Rescue Mission Inc does
Mission
Since 1899, the boston rescue mission has provided a safe, healing community for people at risk of homelessness and substance use disorders. Brm is committed to transforming and empowering women and men at risk to end their homelessness and to become healthier and more self-sufficient. Every day, homeless women and men find dignity and refuge in our shelter community from the lonely and often violent streets and inclement weather. We provide hearty and healthy meals, a safe place to sleep, bathroom and shower facilities, toiletries, emergency clothing, and care for every person with respect. Staff is diverse in language, ethnicity, culture, age, skills, and knowledge and lived experiences and assist guests with achieving their goals for housing, recovery, physical and mental health and other critical needs. During fiscal year 2025, staff and volunteers prepared and served over 45,000 nutritious meals. Last year, brm's ten bed facility in dorchester provided transitional housing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Overflow shelter program:our emergency shelter provides beds and services to people experiencing homelessness who don't have a safe place to sleep. The boston rescue mission conducts an intake with each person to access their immediate needs. We provide two nourishing and hearty meals, access to clean bathrooms and shower facilities, access to a case manager for help with immediate needs, esl classes to newly arrived migrants, assistance with getting work papers and jobs, and beginning the process of finding housing.
$1,570,417 spent$1,090,454 earned by the program64% of program spendingCommunity builder incubator program:on december 21, 2004, boston rescue mission created the kingston investment properties trust. This nominee trust was created as a title holding agency. The boston rescue mission administers shared space for services in downtown boston for several massachusetts community-based organizations, including homelessness, disability advocates, youth and child services. Boston rescue mission's administrative offices are also located in the building. The proximity to each other facilitates programmatic collaboration among several of these organizations and with the boston rescue mission. Brm is also building future programmatic space capacity for its growing programs.
$622,938 spent$722,896 earned by the program25% of program spendingHealthy meals programs:shelter meals- brm relies on the generosity of dozens of food donors to help us prepare and serve over 45,000 healthy and hearty meals each year. Staff and volunteers serve two meals a day; lunches and dinners to guests who stay in our overflow shelter program and our community residents. Food pantry - our pantry provides food basics such as bread, rice, beans, pasta, fish, meats, fruits & vegetables, cereals and other packaged food to our neighbors in need. Every monday & saturday afternoon, we distribute critical food supplies that help sustain and feed neighborhood families.
$188,487 spent8% of program spendingSober living community- brm's supportive shelter community provides professional and peer support in a safe sober environment for our guests. Our downtown crossing location offers access to public transportation, a wide range of employment opportunities, access to recovery treatment, transitional and permanent housing, and other valuable resources. Job readiness - we provide job training and work opportunities to these community members to prepare them to join or rejoin the workforce. We teach, develop, and reinforce the work skills, coping abilities, positive attitudes and self-confidence that are necessary to successfully apply for a job, accept an offer, and to maintain employment.
$83,013 spent$27,262 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,464,855.
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 2020 to 2021, from $51M to $67M (+32%).
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 25% · 2018 25% · 2019 32% · 2020 34% · 2021 32% · 2022 22% · 2023 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Elizabeth Keeley
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $58k → $390k.
14 of 96 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 RESCUE MISSION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 96 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 RESCUE MISSION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% 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 RESCUE MISSION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 37% · 2019 36% · 2020 29% · 2021 36% · 2022 24% · 2023 26% — 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
50% of BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
57% of BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 RESCUE MISSION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $784k on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$506k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$278k
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$121
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 RESCUE MISSION 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
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Jbond LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC?
- BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,595,573 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($746,745). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC have?
- IRS filings report 96 organizations giving $2,595,573 in grants to BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $746,745 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON RESCUE MISSION 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 96 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