Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC
GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,420,876 to it, the largest being MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED & AFFILIATES GROUP RETURN ($1,911,077). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $71M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Greater Lynn Senior Services Inc does
Mission
Glss is the critical coordinating partner--marshaling resources and supplying the tools that turn small efforts into sustained community impact. We will accomplish this by dynamic collaboration through a data-driven, intentional approach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The consumer services department at glss includes a variety of programs serving older adults, adults with dementia, and their caregivers, with the goal of promoting health and independence for community living, as an alternative to nursing facility care. Services are provided through a case management model, which includes needs assessment, referral and coordination of in-home services (personal care, homemaking, companion, emergency response devices, transportation, laundry, grocery shopping, heavy chore), provision of information and resources, advocacy, health self-management education, care transitions support, and decisional counseling. Funding for these programs and services comes from a combination of state, federal, medicaid managed care providers, and grant funding.
$55,244,003 spent$22,519,310 earned by the program87% of program spendingGlss' nutrition department oversees the meals on wheels program delivering over 800 meals daily and the congregate (community dining) locations (9) serving over 600 meals daily. Nutrition also administers the monthly 'brown bag" program from the greater boston food bank, serving over 650 senior consumers to supplement these seniors throughout the month. Nutrition also administers the annual farmer market program in conjunction with usda and the homebound farmers market program.
$2,344,464 spent$3,049,668 earned by the program4% of program spendingGlss' clinical services department focuses on at-risk older adults dealing with abuse, neglect, exploitation, homelessness, and behavioral health challenges. These programs provide advocacy, family supports, connection to risk-reducing services, financial management, application assistance for housing and benefits, housing search, tenancy preservation, counseling, and crisis intervention. These services are funded through state and federal funds, as well as insurance payers and a variety of grants.
$1,541,562 spent$1,060,682 earned by the program2% of program spendingOther programs include community services, population health, andphoenix project.
$4,237,033 spentof which $159,292 as grants$900,470 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $63,367,062.
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.
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 $25M to $27M (+11%).
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 78% · 2018 77% · 2019 74% · 2020 73% · 2021 59% · 2022 65% · 2023 57% · 2024 60% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kathryn Burns
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $113k → $1.1M.
6 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $200k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Element Care Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 69%; 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 GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 81% · 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 26% · 2022 40% · 2023 80% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
91% of GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES 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. $323k 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.
Organizations like GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Indian Rock Supportive Housing Inc · exempt
- Silver Otter Strategies Inc · exempt
- Greater North Shore Link Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC?
- GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,420,876 to it, the largest being MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED & AFFILIATES GROUP RETURN ($1,911,077). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $3,420,876 in grants to GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC?
- MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED & AFFILIATES GROUP RETURN is the largest funder on record, with $1,911,077 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER LYNN SENIOR 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.
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 33 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