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ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC

ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,050,193 to it, the largest being THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION ($531,311). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$256M
Funders on record
49
Grants received
$4.1M
Net assets
$42M
29/49 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Eliot Community Human Services Inc does

Mission

Eliot community human services is a non-profit human services agency dedicated to enhancing the quality of lives. Guided by compassion and respect, our mission is accomplished by responding to the needs and diversity of the individuals we serve, providing comprehensive services that are individualized, accessible, educational and strength based, delivering high quality, evidence-based programming, valuing, enriching and partnering with institutions of higher education, hospitals and other non-profit organizations, our staff, our clients and our communities.the philosophical foundation of eliot is our commitment to serving the most vulnerable of populations, those who are most at risk and have limited or no resources to access help. The programs within the eliot network provide a continuum of care to a varied population. The programs also advance the field of mental heath care through focusing on the education of providers and research in the mental health field.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Adult community services: providing community based residential programming to adults with chronic mental illness as well as to adults with developmental disabilities in homes located throughout the commonwealth. Also providing support to the same populations who have attained a sufficient level of self-preservation and live in their own apartments, this support is done through case management and community support services. We also offer pact programs that deliver an intensive, community-based array of services for individuals with mental illness who require a higher level of support, but may be resistant to traditional models of treatment. Day services for this population are offered in different areas and serve the various levels of the population. We offer clubhouse services through a national model of care to individuals with mental illness that provides wraparound services to adults. These day programs offer life skills as well as vocational and employment support.

    $85,455,232 spent$65,494,241 earned by the program
    38% of program spending
  2. Homeless services: eliot's homeless services division provides a comprehensive continuum of services designed to identify and address clinical and systemic barriers to obtaining or maintaining housing in a collaborative fashion with individuals and families served. Eliot's homeless services division also operates 3 emergency family shelter sites and 3 low threshold housing programs that serve individuals with chronic co-occurring behavioral health and substance abuse disorders. Outreach to the unhoused population across the commonwealth is conducted in state and locally funded shelters, drop in and warming centers, and places not meant for human habitation. Once housing is successfully leveraged through federal, state or local resources, eliot personnel in partnership with various community based organizations provide multidisciplinary tenancy sustaining services that coincide with the identified needs and treatment preferences of the individual. All programs provide preventative support to mitigate the risk of homelessness.

    $63,080,437 spent$165,505 earned by the program
    28% of program spending
  3. Behavioral health services: eliot operates two urgent outpatient mental sites and 3 low threshold housing programs that serve individuals with chronic co-occurring behavioral health and substance abuse disorders. Outreach to the unhoused population across the commonwealth is conducted in state and locally funded shelters, drop in and warming centers, and places not meant for human habitation. Once housing is successfully leveraged through federal, state or local resources, eliot personnel in partnership with various community based organizations health centers using a multi-disciplinary team of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, and other professionals to administer a full range of clinical and support services, resulting in a comprehensive, collaborative approach to treatment. We also operate two community behavioral health centers (cbhc) that are a one stop shop for a number of behavioral health and/or substance use treatment programs including urgent and emergency services, crisis stabilization unit, individual and family therapy services, including care coordination with primary care. These services are available for all ages (youth,…

    $45,350,208 spent$118,986 earned by the program
    20% of program spending
  4. Youth services: eliot community human services partners with the departments of youth services and children and families to provide residential services to children and youth ages birth through 21 years old. We have developed a network of innovative programs which serve the specialized needs of child, adolescent and transitional age populations across the commonwealth. Our range of social services and juvenile justice programs strive to provide children, youth and families with values, skills, and strengths necessary to face and overcome personal challenges in a way that will enable them to lead healthy and productive lives. Residences provide safe, structured and trauma informed environments.

    $30,903,204 spent$81,081 earned by the program
    14% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $224,789,081.

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 ($103M) Expenses 100 ($102M) Net assets 100 ($15M)2018 Revenue 101 ($105M) Expenses 99 ($102M) Net assets 121 ($18M)2019 Revenue 115 ($119M) Expenses 115 ($117M) Net assets 183 ($27M)2020 Revenue 120 ($124M) Expenses 122 ($125M) Net assets 175 ($26M)2021 Revenue 131 ($135M) Expenses 127 ($130M) Net assets 210 ($31M)2022 Revenue 141 ($145M) Expenses 139 ($142M) Net assets 228 ($33M)2023 Revenue 160 ($165M) Expenses 163 ($166M) Net assets 221 ($32M)2024 Revenue 213 ($220M) Expenses 211 ($216M) Net assets 248 ($36M)2025 Revenue 248 ($256M) Expenses 245 ($250M) Net assets 288 ($42M)
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Revenue (248)Expenses (245)Net assets (288)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 2024 to 2025, from $70M to $87M (+23%).

$29M
$33M
$42M
$47M
$49M
$51M
$63M
$70M
$87M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 75% · 2018 74% · 2019 75% · 2020 72% · 2021 70% · 2022 74% · 2023 72% · 2024 71% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

74% of ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,211 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$937k
’17
$3.0M
’18
$1.7M
’19
−$1.1M
’20
$5.1M
’21
$2.6M
’22
−$971k
’23
$3.9M
’24
$5.8M
’25
0.3
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.

Chief executive

Melinda Matthews

President/CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed232222212426252424
Joined·+2+1+1+4+4+3+0+3
No longer listed·31212413
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $86k → $691k.

11 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. 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

ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

64% 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 ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC.

13%
largest funder
35%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 50% · 2019 35% · 2020 31% · 2021 34% · 2022 23% · 2023 35% — 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

50% of ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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

66% of ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
OH
RI
TX

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. $951k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Government funding ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.

Federal$4.0M
grants $4.0Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$4.0M

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC?
ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,050,193 to it, the largest being THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION ($531,311). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $4,050,193 in grants to ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC?
THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $531,311 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES 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 49 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