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CASPAR INC

CASPAR INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,739,391 to it, the largest being LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC ($335,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$9.6M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$4.5M
20/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Caspar Inc does

Mission

Caspar's mission is to provide community-based services to those affected by substance use disorders. Caspar offers a comprehensive array of outreach, shelter, stabilization, residential aftercare, and prevention services to meet the needs of the populations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Emergency service center - caspar operates one of three homeless shelters in massachusetts that are funded to provide daytime and overnight services to men and women with a history of active substance use. In addition to crisis stabilization and on site medical and mental health care, the emergency service center provides counseling, case management, referral, and early recovery support for newly sober men and women. With an overnight capacity of 107, the emergency service center is the largest shelter in the greater boston area and the only shelter which accepts clients who are actively using alcohol and other drugs.

    $4,950,891 spent$5,018,357 earned by the program
    50% of program spending
  2. Residential services - this program provides both men's and women's residential treatment programs. These gender specific programs focus on the distinct recovery issues of men and women. The women's residential program focuses on the distinct recovery issues and needs of women, such as a history of trauma and abuse, eating disorders and the loss of children due to active substance abuse. The men's residential program provides a residential experience for men where they become secure in their recovery and receive case management to build relapse prevention skills.

    $3,925,679 spent$3,371,923 earned by the program
    40% of program spending
  3. First step street outreach team offers life saving alternatives to unsheltered homeless men and women who are affected by substance abuse, mental illness, and medical complications associated with life on the streets. Firststep staff engage homeless people where they are andbuild trusting relationships. Through a combination of foot teams and mobile teams in vans, staff travel to known homeless hangouts -business districts, subway stations, parks, meal programs, drop-in centers, and building doorways - seeking homeless men and women who may need help. The staff offer unsheltered individuals access to emergency medical and psychiatric care, meal programs, shelters, substance abuse treatment, and daytime drop-in and social service centers.

    $1,018,686 spent$309,374 earned by the program
    10% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,895,256.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.5M) Expenses 100 ($4.0M) Net assets 100 ($5.7M)2018 Revenue 109 ($4.9M) Expenses 110 ($4.4M) Net assets 103 ($5.9M)2019 Revenue 111 ($5.0M) Expenses 118 ($4.7M) Net assets 64 ($3.7M)2020 Revenue 136 ($6.1M) Expenses 142 ($5.7M) Net assets 69 ($4.0M)2021 Revenue 168 ($7.5M) Expenses 194 ($7.7M) Net assets 69 ($4.0M)2022 Revenue 173 ($7.8M) Expenses 200 ($8.0M) Net assets 86 ($4.9M)2023 Revenue 186 ($8.3M) Expenses 237 ($9.4M) Net assets 83 ($4.8M)2024 Revenue 186 ($8.3M) Expenses 245 ($9.8M) Net assets 79 ($4.6M)2025 Revenue 215 ($9.6M) Expenses 282 ($11M) Net assets 78 ($4.5M)
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Revenue (215)Expenses (282)Net assets (78)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $7.7M to $8.5M (+10%).

$6.7M
$6.8M
$7.2M
$7.8M
$7.7M
$8.5M
$8.2M
$8.1M
$7.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 83% · 2018 80% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

9% of CASPAR INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$489k
’17
$513k
’18
$265k
’19
$440k
’20
−$202k
’21
−$206k
’22
−$1.1M
’23
−$1.4M
’24
−$1.6M
’25
1.1
months of
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

Ruth Fishbein

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed262727262726282627
Joined·+1+3+1+1+5+3+4+3
No longer listed·03206162
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $100k → $276k.

9 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 CASPAR 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

CASPAR INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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

67% 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 CASPAR INC.

19%
largest funder
52%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 40% · 2019 40% · 2020 38% · 2021 55% · 2022 43% · 2023 24% — 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

63% of CASPAR INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

78% of CASPAR INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $838k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CASPAR INC has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding CASPAR INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.1M on record.

State$13.1M
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Top programs
  • (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$12.5M
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$662k

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 CASPAR 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 8 related entities

  • Bay Cove High School · exempt
  • Bay Cove Moseley Group Home Inc · exempt
  • Juliette Corporation · exempt
  • Bay Cove Orchardfield Residence Inc · exempt
  • Bay Cove Hamilton Group Home · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CASPAR 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 CASPAR INC?
CASPAR INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,739,391 to it, the largest being LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC ($335,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CASPAR INC have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,739,391 in grants to CASPAR INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CASPAR INC?
LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC is the largest funder on record, with $335,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CASPAR 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 28 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