Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC
CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,535,891 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ($680,489). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc does
Mission
Recognizing the dignity of all, cmha leads a collaborative response to homelessness that fosters long-term housing stability through prevention, quality services, education and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing assistance and placement - provide housing-related benefits and services to families. Tenant and landlord services consist of counseling and the prevention of families from becoming homeless. Housing placement includes household assistance funds and stabilization services for clients receiving those funds.
$12,520,806 spentof which $11,127,770 as grants31% of program spendingFamily shelter services - the organization is the largest provider for all of the family shelter, housing search and stabilization funds in worcester. This program encompasses congregate, co-housing and scattered sites. Funding is provided by a state contract.
$20,029,960 spentof which $8,280,724 as grants49% of program spendingContinuum of care - provides transitional and permanent supportive housing services to homeless individuals and families throughout worcester county. These program goals are federally funded through the united states department of housing and urban development (hud) and the organization sub contracts with non-profit agencies as subrecipients throughout the county. The continuum of care is also the designated planning group for the provision of services and planning to meet the needs of the homeless and homeless subpopulations and hmis.
$8,107,685 spentof which $6,392,446 as grants20% of program spendingDonations clearinghouse - the organization picks up donations of furniture and household goods and distributes these items to people in need, free of charge
$208,835 spentof which $5,114 as grants1% of program spendingElder home repair and maintenance - provides elders who own their own homes with emergency repairs and routine maintenance to prevent elders from being displaced due to endangering conditinos in their homes. There is no charge for labor.
$158,142 spentof which $611 as grants0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,025,428.
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.
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 $9.7M to $25M (+160%).
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 95% · 2018 95% · 2019 95% · 2020 96% · 2021 96% · 2022 98% · 2023 97% · 2024 98% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Leah Bradley
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $69k → $184k.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE 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
CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
95% 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 CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 57% · 2019 50% · 2020 76% · 2021 54% · 2022 39% · 2023 42% — 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
67% of CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
98% of CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE 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. $789k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $69.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$69.0M
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 CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE 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
95% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE 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 CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC?
- CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,535,891 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ($680,489). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,535,891 in grants to CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $680,489 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE 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 21 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