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CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS INC

CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,273 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,450). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$57k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$17k
Net assets
$110k
2/9 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Chatham Ecumenical Council Helping Prevent Homelessness Inc does

Mission

To prevent homelessness in the chatham area.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide assistance to families in need of housing and utilities assistance to prevent homelessness.

    $75,817 spentof which $74,336 as grants$356 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $75,817.

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 ($3) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2018 Revenue 1556900 ($47k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 100 ($180k)2019 Revenue 1985400 ($60k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 99 ($178k)2020 Revenue 1367133 ($41k) Expenses 92 ($56k) Net assets 91 ($163k)2021 Revenue 1702667 ($51k) Expenses 66 ($40k) Net assets 97 ($173k)2022 Revenue 1837067 ($55k) Expenses 101 ($62k) Net assets 93 ($167k)2023 Revenue 1790200 ($54k) Expenses 135 ($83k) Net assets 77 ($138k)2024 Revenue 2036033 ($61k) Expenses 199 ($122k) Net assets 43 ($77k)2025 Revenue 1908700 ($57k) Expenses 132 ($81k) Net assets 61 ($110k)
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Revenue (1908700)Expenses (132)Net assets (61)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 2023 to 2024, from $138k to $77k (−44%).

$0
$180k
$178k
$163k
$173k
$167k
$138k
$77k
$110k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3
’17
−$15k
’18
−$2k
’19
−$15k
’20
$11k
’21
−$7k
’22
−$29k
’23
−$61k
’24
−$24k
’25
16
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.

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Listed81113151514111210
Joined·+5+3+3+0+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·21102302
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $50.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS 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

CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

52% 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 CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS INC.

49%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 98% · 2020 54% · 2021 85% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.

“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

33% of CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 22% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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 FY2022, 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

52% of CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS 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 $8k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.

NY
MA
CT

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

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’22
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−41% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve16.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)243% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

89%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS INC?
CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,273 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,450). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $17,273 in grants to CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS 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 9 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