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LINDEN PONDS INC

LINDEN PONDS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,940 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL INC ($118,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$83M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$219k
Net assets
$-114307586
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Linden Ponds Inc does

Mission

Mission statement - home is belonging, peace of mind, love and acceptance. Welcome home!vision statement - linden ponds, inc. Celebrates aging! Grounded in inclusion, innovation and advocacy, we create unparalleled value and opportunities for every life we touch. As part of the national senior communities enterprise, we leverage our strong financial foundation and governance for the benefit of seniors and those who support them.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Linden ponds, inc provides services needed by senior residents, who reside in 1,086 independent living units, 22 assisted living units, 66 skilled nursing beds and 44 memory care units. The services we provide to our residents include, but are not limited to housing, food, medical, security and maintenance services, recreational and pastoral activities.

    $73,819,432 spentof which $211,592 as grants$80,007,572 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $73,819,432.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($57M) Expenses 100 ($64M)2018 Revenue 103 ($59M) Expenses 113 ($72M)2019 Revenue 113 ($65M) Expenses 108 ($69M)2020 Revenue 114 ($65M) Expenses 114 ($73M)2021 Revenue 120 ($69M) Expenses 117 ($74M)2022 Revenue 100 ($57M) Expenses 121 ($77M)2023 Revenue 138 ($79M) Expenses 128 ($82M)2024 Revenue 145 ($83M) Expenses 135 ($86M)
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Revenue (145)Expenses (135)Peer revenue range

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 $366M to $393M (+7%).

$356M
$357M
$364M
$365M
$366M
$393M
$415M
$433M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of LINDEN PONDS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 881 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6.4M
’17
−$13M
’18
−$4.5M
’19
−$7.2M
’20
−$5.6M
’21
−$20M
’22
−$2.7M
’23
−$3.2M
’24
3.5
months of
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

James Centola

Executive director

Board chair

Rev Dr Zina Jacque

Chair & president

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2128292422252527
Joined·+13+6+3+7+7+6+6
No longer listed·6589464
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $35k.

4 of 8 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 LINDEN PONDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

LINDEN PONDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

43% 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 LINDEN PONDS INC.

54%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 82% · 2021 45% · 2022 77% · 2023 52% — 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

33% of LINDEN PONDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

LINDEN PONDS INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.

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MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LINDEN PONDS INC is better cushioned than half of the 817 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve3.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 817 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding LINDEN PONDS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.9M on record.

State$7.9M
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Top programs
  • (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$7.3M
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$549k
  • (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$2k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
69%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MA

Part of a family of 24 related entities

  • Hingham Campus LLC · disregarded
  • Ann's Choice Inc · exempt
  • Ashby Ponds Inc · exempt
  • Avery Point Inc · exempt
  • Bethesda Nsc Retirement Community Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds LINDEN PONDS INC?
LINDEN PONDS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,940 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL INC ($118,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LINDEN PONDS INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $218,940 in grants to LINDEN PONDS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LINDEN PONDS INC?
FOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $118,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LINDEN PONDS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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