Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HEADING HOME INC
HEADING HOME INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,863,241 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,810,860). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60M
- Funders on record
- 119
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Heading Home Inc does
Mission
Heading home's mission is to end homelessness in greater boston by providing a supported pathway to self-sufficiency that begins with a home, together with critical services such as life skills, financial literacy, and job training. (continued on schedule o)heading home provides emergency transitional and permanent housing, and support services, to low-income homeless and formerly homeless families and individuals in the communities of boston, cambridge, chelsea, everett, lawrence, malden, medford, quincy, revere, and somerville. As our name reflects, we believe that a stable home provides the optimal foundation to get back on track; our programs focus heavily on assessment, engagement, individual goal-setting and securing permanent housing for our clients as quickly as possible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Shelter and emergency services - shelter and emergency services consists of a place to stay, supportive services including assistance in finding permanent housing, and in some cases meals and basic supplies. Services are temporary and are intended to be relatively short in duration. This includes adding 142 units for taking over the casa neuva vida shelter contracts.
$34,685,591 spent$531,128 earned by the program78% of program spendingPermanent supportive housing - permanent supportive housing consists of subsidized housing and supportive services for certain formerly homeless individuals and families. It is not time-limited, though many participants move on to other housing after several years.
$8,690,946 spent$151,751 earned by the program20% of program spendingTransitional housing - transitional housing consists of housing and supportive services that are available for 18-24 months to help participants make the transition from homelessness to permanent housing.
$917,122 spent$6,898 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,293,659.
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 $33M to $50M (+51%).
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 80% · 2018 78% · 2019 78% · 2020 78% · 2021 75% · 2022 64% · 2023 83% · 2024 75% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of HEADING HOME INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Danielle Ferrier
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Josh Solomon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $517k → $3.0M.
17 of 119 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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: $4.2M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HEADING HOME INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HEADING HOME INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 119 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
HEADING HOME INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
36% 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 HEADING HOME INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 31% · 2019 28% · 2020 24% · 2021 29% · 2022 34% · 2023 37% — 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
41% of HEADING HOME INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
89% of HEADING HOME 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. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
HEADING HOME INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 449 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 449 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HEADING HOME INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45.1M on record — $657k federal, $44.5M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$657k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$23.8M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$20.7M
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$25
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 HEADING HOME 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
83% 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 1 related entity
- Family Life Education Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEADING HOME 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 HEADING HOME INC?
- HEADING HOME INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,863,241 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,810,860). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEADING HOME INC have?
- IRS filings report 119 organizations giving $12,863,241 in grants to HEADING HOME INC, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEADING HOME INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,810,860 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEADING HOME 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 119 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