Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GAVIN FOUNDATION INC
GAVIN FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,035,456 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($826,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $35M
What Gavin Foundation Inc does
Mission
Gavin foundation provides substance abuse education, counseling, housing and support services for individuals located in the south boston area of massachusetts and surrounding communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The quincy ats/css (detox) program provides acute treatment services ("ats") and clinical stabilization services ("css") to adults struggling with drugs or alcohol, including heroin and prescription drugs. The program focuses on stabilizing individuals, enhancing their motivation to change, and linking them to continued treatment and collateral services.
$9,547,328 spent$12,478,589 earned by the program45% of program spendingThe adult residential program is an intensive substance abuse recovery home program which provides individual and group counseling, advocacy, vocational and educational services, medical consultation and substance abuse education to individuals in boston and the surrounding communities who have recently achieved sobriety and require rehabilitative services to strengthen and maintain their sobriety. A substantial amount of the revenue of this program is derived from services delivered to the commonwealth of massachusetts through the department of public health. The program includes the gavin house located in south boston, massachusetts, the charlestown recovery house located in charlestown, massachusetts, the boston hamilton house located in dorchester, massachusetts and eileen's house located in dorchester, massachusetts.
$6,246,562 spent$6,745,486 earned by the program30% of program spendingThe center for recovery services program offers assessment, and individual and group treatment for individuals struggling with substance use, abuse and addiction. Services are provided by licensed clinicians and include: assessment, counseling, relapse prevention, case management, anger management and enhanced structured outpatient addiction program for youth ages 16 to 20. The center for recovery services program is licensed as an outpatient program by the bureau of substance abuse services, department of mental health. The agency is also an approved provider of behavioral health services by the massachusetts behavioral health partnership and is approved to provide access to treatment and recovery services for individuals involved with the criminal justice system and affected by substance use.
$1,562,668 spent$1,409,007 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe recovery homes collaborative works closely with the national alliance of recovery residences ("narr") to create a process for the implementation of narr's national standards on sober home certification and provides training and technical assistance.the graduate center provides residence to graduates of the adult residential programs.
$3,734,408 spent$150,443 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,090,966.
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 2021 to 2022, from $20M to $27M (+39%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 82% · 2018 68% · 2019 51% · 2020 45% · 2021 44% · 2022 30% · 2023 24% · 2024 21% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of GAVIN FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
William Ostiguy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $44k → $574k.
14 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 GAVIN FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
GAVIN FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
80% 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 GAVIN FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 70% · 2019 78% · 2020 76% · 2021 28% · 2022 45% · 2023 24% — 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
18% of GAVIN FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
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
61% of GAVIN FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
GAVIN FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 452 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GAVIN FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $43.9M on record — $4.2M federal, $39.7M state.
- Department of Justice$2.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.8M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$33.8M
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$3.0M
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$1.7M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.1M
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$177k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$3k
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 GAVIN FOUNDATION 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GAVIN FOUNDATION 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 GAVIN FOUNDATION INC?
- GAVIN FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,035,456 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($826,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GAVIN FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $4,035,456 in grants to GAVIN FOUNDATION INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GAVIN FOUNDATION INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $826,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GAVIN FOUNDATION 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 54 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