Skip to content

Massachusetts · Nonprofit

FRIENDLY HOUSE INC

FRIENDLY HOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,183,916 to it, the largest being CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ($15,889,798). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$9.8M
Funders on record
58
Grants received
$20M
Net assets
$4.7M
26/58 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 67%
01What it does

What Friendly House Inc does

Mission

For the educational, social and family betterment of residents of the city of worcester. Friendly house works with the entire families both nuclear and extended, as an integrating force for the families and the neighborhoods it serves. Friendly house provides a continuum of comprehensive coordinated neighborhood basic services to inner-city families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Shelter program: provides emergency housing for eligible participants.

    $5,857,073 spent$6,848,936 earned by the program
    70% of program spending
  2. Child feeding: program to provide meals to eligible children.

    $621,341 spent$701,813 earned by the program
    7% of program spending
  3. Personal development: social and recreational programs for eligible participants.

    $1,324,024 spent$819,488 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  4. Recreation: provides constructive and satisfying use of leisure time.

    $525,179 spent$280,340 earned by the program
    6% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,327,617.

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 ($5.0M) Expenses 100 ($4.9M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 103 ($5.2M) Expenses 106 ($5.2M) Net assets 101 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 99 ($5.0M) Expenses 102 ($5.0M) Net assets 99 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 108 ($5.4M) Expenses 106 ($5.2M) Net assets 117 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 140 ($7.0M) Expenses 121 ($5.9M) Net assets 201 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 121 ($6.0M) Expenses 123 ($6.0M) Net assets 189 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 163 ($8.1M) Expenses 150 ($7.3M) Net assets 252 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 205 ($10M) Expenses 184 ($9.0M) Net assets 350 ($4.6M)2025 Revenue 195 ($9.8M) Expenses 198 ($9.7M) Net assets 360 ($4.7M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (195)Expenses (198)Net assets (360)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 $4.2M to $5.5M (+32%).

$2.2M
$2.1M
$2.1M
$2.8M
$3.4M
$3.3M
$4.2M
$5.5M
$5.6M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

10% of FRIENDLY HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$127k
’17
$7k
’18
−$17k
’19
$238k
’20
$1.1M
’21
$37k
’22
$800k
’23
$1.3M
’24
$113k
’25
0.5
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

Trish Appert

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed201919182118181615
Joined·+1+1+0+4+1+3+2+4
No longer listed·21114345
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.6M.

14 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 FRIENDLY HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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

FRIENDLY HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

94% 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 FRIENDLY HOUSE INC.

79%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 97% · 2019 89% · 2020 85% · 2021 82% · 2022 85% · 2023 60% — 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

46% of FRIENDLY HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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

98% of FRIENDLY HOUSE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
DE
NC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $788k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

FRIENDLY HOUSE INC has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding FRIENDLY HOUSE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.

State$2.4M
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.6M
  • (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$780k

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 FRIENDLY HOUSE 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

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 13%Fundraising 1%

Governance

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

Public support

92%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDLY HOUSE 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC?
FRIENDLY HOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,183,916 to it, the largest being CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ($15,889,798). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDLY HOUSE INC have?
IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $20,183,916 in grants to FRIENDLY HOUSE INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDLY HOUSE INC?
CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,889,798 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDLY HOUSE 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.

Play a game about who funds Friendly House →

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 58 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing