Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC
CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,838,946 to it, the largest being LAURA BENCIVENGA FOUNDATION INC ($1,200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Center of Hope Foundation Inc does
Mission
To provide people with disabilities and their families with the resources, services, and opportunities to be contributing members of their communities and to achieve the most fulfilling and meaningful lives possible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The center of hope foundation's day habilitation programs provide support to individuals with a wide variety of needs and abilities, with each program designed to have services best suited to the individuals in each setting. All programs provide skills trainings designed to enhance the individuals involved. The quinebaug river day habilitation program is designed to support individuals with behavioral and sensory needs. This program offers a high staff to program member ratio to ensure that program members are meeting their goals. The southbridge day habilitation program supports individuals who are more medically fragile. This home-like setting offers a high staff to program member ratio to ensure that program members needs are met. The west street day habilitation program supports a variety of individuals who need more medical attention and personal care. Sturbridge day hab and center of hope day hab provide services more suited for younger people with different goals and education needs. The day habs serve 475 people with 77 requiring one-to-one support.
$5,962,674 spent$6,598,987 earned by the program48% of program spendingThe employment supports program served a total of 128 participants. This program provides work evaluations, employment skills training, on-the-job support services and direct job placement services to individuals with disabilities. Work options include production and assembly, maintenance, clerical, auto detailing, yard work, recycling, gardening and cooking, retail and printing services which are all performed within the center of hope or its small businesses. Outside work includes: job placements in a wide range of community locations, including restaurants, hotels, hospital, retail, clerical, janitorial, delivery services and more, as well as a vast network of volunteerism sites.
$2,710,123 spent$2,407,419 earned by the program22% of program spendingThe transportation program serves individuals by providing morning and afternoon transportation from their homes to our programs. In fiscal year 24 transportation services include single trip transports, small group transportation in mini-vans, wheelchair transportation vans and passenger group transportation vans. We provided 270 individuals with rides to and from their programs.
$1,883,806 spent$3,691,520 earned by the program15% of program spendingOther program services include: independent living, vocational training, and community orientation.
$1,940,132 spent$3,212,989 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,496,735.
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 $13M to $15M (+18%).
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.
5% of CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Erika Burrows
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $30k → $1.2M.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION 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
CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 47% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 99% · 2023 93% — 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
57% of CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC draws 73% 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. $78k 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
CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75.2M on record — $1.2M federal, $74.0M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.2M
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$44.2M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$28.5M
- (GG) ENERGY COSTS AND SPACE RENTAL$1.3M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$25k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$560
- (NN) INFRASTRUCTURE:$492
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 CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 2 related entities
- Forty West Street Corporation · exempt
- Noress Corporation · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC?
- CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,838,946 to it, the largest being LAURA BENCIVENGA FOUNDATION INC ($1,200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,838,946 in grants to CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC?
- LAURA BENCIVENGA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION 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 17 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