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COMMUNITY ACTION FOR BETTER HOUSING INC

COMMUNITY ACTION FOR BETTER HOUSING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,000 to it, the largest being CHARLESBANK HOMES ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.5M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$136k
Net assets
$728k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Community Action for Better Housing Inc does

Mission

To provide decent housing that is affordable to persons with low or moderate income.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided clean, safe and affordable housing units to 84 individuals and families with low to moderate incomes; provide 9 housing units and 4 multi-bed buildings to catholic social services of fall river. A related organization, for its homeless shelter programs.

    $1,194,325 spent$1,189,812 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

  2. N/a

  3. N/a

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,194,325.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets -82 ($-597815)2019 Revenue 115 ($1.2M) Expenses 94 ($1.3M) Net assets -101 ($-733239)2020 Revenue 113 ($1.2M) Expenses 88 ($1.2M) Net assets -110 ($-798108)2021 Revenue 122 ($1.3M) Expenses 94 ($1.3M) Net assets -117 ($-851063)2022 Revenue 124 ($1.3M) Expenses 98 ($1.4M) Net assets -131 ($-952252)2023 Revenue 134 ($1.4M) Expenses 105 ($1.5M) Net assets -144 ($-1049608)2024 Revenue 244 ($2.5M) Expenses 114 ($1.6M) Net assets -18 ($-128174)2025 Revenue 241 ($2.5M) Expenses 116 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($728k)
'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (241)Expenses (116)Net assets (100)

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 $9.0M to $11M (+21%).

$8.6M
$8.0M
$8.1M
$8.0M
$7.8M
$7.5M
$9.0M
$11M
'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 5% · 2022 4% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$373k
’18
−$135k
’19
−$65k
’20
−$53k
’21
−$101k
’22
−$97k
’23
$921k
’24
$856k
’25
5.9
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.

'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed89998887
Joined·+3+1+0+2+3+2+3
No longer listed·2103324
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
funders
1
1
2
1

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 COMMUNITY ACTION FOR BETTER HOUSING 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

COMMUNITY ACTION FOR BETTER HOUSING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

38% 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 COMMUNITY ACTION FOR BETTER HOUSING INC.

55%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of COMMUNITY ACTION FOR BETTER HOUSING INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Organizations like COMMUNITY ACTION FOR BETTER HOUSING 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

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fall River Massachusetts Inc81%Coalition for a Better Acre Inc79%Greenfield Housing Associates Inc78%Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc78%Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire Inc78%Community Action Committee of Cape Cod & Islands Inc78%Community Development Inc77%Cascap Realty Inc77%

Nationally

Community Housing Development Corp of North Richmond83%Community Action House82%Community Housing Resource Partners Inc82%Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fall River Massachusetts Inc81%Community Action for Human Services Inc81%Better Community Neighborhoods Inc80%Community Assistance Provider80%Community Housing Solutions80%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

82%

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 5 related entities

  • Assisi Housing Corporation · exempt
  • Oscar Romero House Inc · exempt
  • St Dominic's Apartments Inc · exempt
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River · exempt
  • Catholic Social Services of Fall River Inc · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY ACTION FOR BETTER HOUSING 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 COMMUNITY ACTION FOR BETTER HOUSING INC?
COMMUNITY ACTION FOR BETTER HOUSING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,000 to it, the largest being CHARLESBANK HOMES ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION FOR BETTER HOUSING INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $136,000 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION FOR BETTER HOUSING INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION FOR BETTER HOUSING INC?
CHARLESBANK HOMES is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACTION FOR BETTER HOUSING 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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