Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC
CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,682,926 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($1,092,119). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $-2829380
What Caritas Communities Inc does
Mission
At caritas communities, we prevent homelessness by providing very low income individuals with permanent housing, support, sense of community, and expanded opportunities. For over 40 years, caritas has helped fill the need for safe, secure housing in greater boston.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Property management & real estate development - caritas communities, inc. Serves as the real estate developer and property manager of all of its 34 buildings located in 14 greater boston communities, and has served as a co-developer of three additional affordable housing projects located in south boston. Caritas communities, inc. Understands the importance of stable, safe, and quality housing and by serving as the developer and property manager of its rental housing, caritas communities, inc. Is able to ensure its housing maintains the standard of excellence its residents deserve.
$2,100,488 spentof which $546,223 as grants$872,502 earned by the program39% of program spendingRental housing - caritas communities, inc. Provides permanent homes to more than 1,000 very low-income individuals. For over 40 years, caritas has helped fill the need for affordable, safe, secure housing in greater boston. We prevent homelessness and stabilize neighborhoods. Caritas communities, inc. Prides itself on providing safe, well maintained, stable housing. Each house is supervised by a live-in resident manager responsible for the well-being of the residents and the upkeep of the property. The caritas model creates sustainable properties that lessen the need for homeless shelters. We make it possible for our residents to have a permanent home, and to maintain dignity and stability in their lives.
$2,999,859 spent$3,755,245 earned by the program56% of program spendingHealthy residents - caritas developed the healthy resident program to help heal the outcomes of poverty and homelessness that result in isolation, distrust, depression and poor health. Caritas' healthy resident program encompasses free y memberships, community meals, open art workshops, writing workshops, budget workshops and libraries in our homes, all intended to provide caritas residents with opportunities to connect with others and participate in activities that facilitate physical and mental wellness and social belonging.
$114,789 spent2% of program spendingResident services - caritas communities provides on-site comprehensive supportive services to residents in need of an extra hand. Our professional resident support staff are regularly on-site at our houses with the aim of establishing trusting relationships with residents. This approach enables us to help residents identify their needs and the challenges they are facing, and connect them to resources and service providers in the community.
$107,478 spent2% of program spendingEmergency rental assistance - by providing emergency funds to cover rent during a temporary setback, residents who are scarcely making ends meet do not have to fear losing their home due to a few days of missed work because of illness, reduced work hours or other circumstances beyond their control. This program aims to help keep tenants in their homes by providing emergency funds to cover their rent during a temporary financial crisis. Ninety percent of grant recipients re-stabilize and are able to resume regular rent payments.
$52,011 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,374,625.
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 2019 to 2020, from $24M to $18M (−26%).
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 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Frank Connell
Executive director/president
Board chair
Maura Murphy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $243k → $1.0M.
15 of 88 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 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
CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
43% 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 CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 19% · 2019 17% · 2020 12% · 2021 27% · 2022 24% · 2023 9% — 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
54% of CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
90% of CARITAS COMMUNITIES 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. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 45 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $268k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$268k
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 CARITAS COMMUNITIES 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 19 related entities
- Alaska Housing LLC · disregarded
- Caritas Worcester House LLC · disregarded
- Parkview Housing LLC · disregarded
- 206 West Broadway Manager LLC · disregarded
- 46 Winter Street LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC?
- CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,682,926 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($1,092,119). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $7,682,926 in grants to CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC?
- United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,092,119 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARITAS COMMUNITIES 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.
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 88 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