Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN (Massachusetts) receives grants from 270 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,074,949 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,006,167). 166 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 270
- Grants received
- $48M
- Net assets
- $51M
What Horizons for Homeless Children does
Mission
Hhc's mission is to improve the lives of homeless children and their families. Hhc provides homeless children in massachusetts with the nurturing, stimulation and opportunities for early education and play that all children need to learn and grow in healthy ways.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early education centers - the agency operates one of massachusetts top ranked early education programs, which starts children along the path toward success at school. The agency's early education program is designed to address the unique challenges and trauma that children experiencing homelessness face.
$12,434,517 spent86% of program spendingThe playspace program- the agency provides children in shelters play experiences that let them be kids for a few hours each week. Through the playspace program, the agency builds playrooms, coordinate activities and work with staff in more than 52 shelters across massachusetts.
$1,514,948 spent$1,188,290 earned by the program10% of program spendingEvaluation - the evaluation program is a key program in the agency's goal of undertaking a more formal process to design, evaluate, and utilize information gained to improve outcomes for children and families who participate in the agency's programs. This program will be instrumental to the agency's focus on influencing public policy regarding early childhood education and child and family homelessness.
$239,954 spent2% of program spendingTraining and technical assistance - through the training and technical assistance program, agency staff members receive hands on training that is specific to early education for homeless children and required to be in compliance with state regulations. In addition, each teacher is coached, trained, and monitored by an expert in the field.
$89,386 spent1% of program spendingPolicy and advocacy - the agency's policy and advocacy work represents a key strategy in the agency's mission to improve the lives of homeless children and families in massachusetts. Through the lens of early childhood development, the agency engages with legislators at the state and federal levels, as well as with other community organizations to advocate for holistic approaches that increase access to high-quality child care, as well as stable, affordable housing opportunities for families across massachusetts.
$208,754 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,487,559.
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 2022 to 2023, from $39M to $58M (+50%).
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 30% · 2018 20% · 2019 19% · 2020 24% · 2021 29% · 2022 33% · 2023 40% · 2024 45% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% 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
Kate Barrand
President and CEO
Board chair
Michael Roberge
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 59 funders to 126 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $6.5M.
35 of 270 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 270 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
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
65% 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 HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 22% · 2019 27% · 2020 31% · 2021 35% · 2022 23% · 2023 25% — 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
49% of HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN'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
56% of HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $21M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.3M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$22.6M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.7M
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 HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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
- Hhc Qalicb LLC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: 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 HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN?
- HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN (Massachusetts) receives grants from 270 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,074,949 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,006,167). 166 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 270 organizations giving $48,074,949 in grants to HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN, 166 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $13,006,167 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN 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 270 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