Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FRESH START FOUNDATION
FRESH START FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $71,115 to it, the largest being MERAKEY FOUNDATION ($71,115). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $71k
- Net assets
- $-1269579
What Fresh Start Foundation does
Mission
Provide a clean and sober environment for individuals without a place to live in the community while receiving substance abuse treatment in a licensed outpatient, intensive outpatient or partial hospitalization program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Fresh start housing and supportive service programs are for veterans and individuals with a history of homelessness, addiction, and/or varying degrees of behavioral health challenges. We have 6 recovery houses and 2 veterans programs in the city of philadelphia that are designed to ensure our residents have safe and supportive housing, and we help connect them with resources to address their phsycial and mental health needs, income, and future houising plans. In fy25: - our veterans healthcare for homeless veterans (hchv) program discharged 77% of our veterans to permanent housing, which was 22% higher than our target goal (55%) and 11% higher than the national average of other programs (64%). This program was awarded a new 5-year contract to continue its services until 9/2030 due to our success. - our veterans grant and per diem (gpd) program discharged 69% of our veterans to permanent housing, which was 4% higher than our target goal (65%). This program was awarded a 1-year option agreement on its current grant to continue its services until 9/2026, and is in the process of applying for a new 3-year grant agreement which would go into effect on 10/1/2026. - the residents that…
$5,042,047 spent$5,589,976 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,042,047.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.1M to $2.0M (−35%).
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.
0% of FRESH START FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Dennis Massott
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $30k.
From the IRS filings of FRESH START FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FRESH START FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FRESH START FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FRESH START FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $36.7M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$36.7M
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 FRESH START FOUNDATION
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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
Part of a family of 39 related entities
- Merakey Foundation · exempt
- Merakey USA · exempt
- Merakey Chester County · exempt
- Merakey Bucks County · exempt
- Merakey New Jersey · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRESH START FOUNDATION: 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 FRESH START FOUNDATION?
- FRESH START FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $71,115 to it, the largest being MERAKEY FOUNDATION ($71,115). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRESH START FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $71,115 in grants to FRESH START FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRESH START FOUNDATION?
- MERAKEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $71,115 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRESH START FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 1 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