Massachusetts · Nonprofit
INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC
INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,492,385 to it, the largest being Cape Cod Foundation Inc ($332,702). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Independence House Inc does
Mission
To help all domestic and sexual assault victims, survivors and children by creating opportunities for safety and empowerment through crisis intervention, advocacy, counseling, referral, outreach, prevention and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy support, safety planning, 209a and 258e restraining order assistance in our safeplan court advocacy program to 1,838 survivors. Outcomes included personal safety plans, increased access to victim compensation resources, increased measure of safety and improved well-being.
$1,179,914 spent$39,786 earned by the program39% of program spendingOn-site hours of emergency shelter services for domestic and sexual assault survivors.
$849,585 spent28% of program spendingDomestic violence advocacy, shelter, safety, counselling and safehoming assistance to over 3,617 survivors of domestic violence. Outcomes achieved include increased well-being, increased options for safety, and increased knowledge of healthy relationship signs and reduced negative impact of domestic violence on emotional well-being. Outreach and prevention activities increased community's knowledge about domestic violence and offered strategies for healthy relationships.
$515,275 spent17% of program spendingSexual assault advocacy, counselling, medical accompainment, hotline response to over 468 survivors of sexual assault, sexual harassment and rape. Outcomes achieved included improved feelings of well-being, increased knowledge of strategies for managing trauma symptoms and reclamation of personal power.
$444,643 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,989,417.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.0M to $6.8M (+36%).
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 69% · 2018 77% · 2019 84% · 2020 81% · 2021 86% · 2022 70% · 2023 84% · 2024 85% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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.
Chief executive
Lysetta Hurge - Putnam
Executive director
Board chair
Leda Phillips
President and chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $41k → $203k.
7 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
61% 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 INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 27% · 2019 20% · 2020 28% · 2021 39% · 2022 30% · 2023 23% — 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
44% of INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
50% of INDEPENDENCE HOUSE 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. $599k 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.
Against its field
INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30.0M on record — $4.1M federal, $25.9M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.5M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$628k
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$18.1M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$7.8M
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$2k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$114
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 INDEPENDENCE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% 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 INDEPENDENCE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC?
- INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,492,385 to it, the largest being Cape Cod Foundation Inc ($332,702). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $1,492,385 in grants to INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC?
- Cape Cod Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $332,702 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDEPENDENCE 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.
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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 45 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