Massachusetts · Nonprofit
LOUISON HOUSE INC
LOUISON HOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,344,805 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($941,087). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $768k
What Louison House Inc does
Mission
The mission of louison house is to meet the needs of our neighbors who are experiencing homelessness or are at risk of housing instability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transitional housing - the louison house provides a transitional housing shelter that has been in existence since 1990. As a congregate living shelter, louison house can house both families and individuals for up to two years but aims to get people out to affordable housing as soon as possible. The average stay at our shelter has increased to six months to a year due to higher rents and longer wait lists in our area. Entrance to the shelter is prioritized according to federal hud guidelines: by level of homelessness (length, etc.), weighted by other federal priorities (domestic violence, safety, disabilities, etc.). All residents work on an individual service plan with staff with the major goal of overcoming any barriers they may have to successfully obtain housing. A range of supportive services are offered, including case management, budget/financial counseling, education/career planning, job/housing search assistance and life-skills training. The purpose of the transitional housing program is to help our residents obtain affordable housing with the income necessary to at least meet their basic living needs and to assist them to reach their personal goals. Most of our residents…
$1,369,995 spentof which $1,060,338 as grants$1,450 earned by the program57% of program spendingPermanent supportive housing - the psh program houses families and individuals that fit the federal hud standards for chronic homelessness. Louison house has 26 individuals and 5 families in 22 scattered site leased apartments that are subsidized through louison house. People in this program can stay in their unit for as long as is needed to ensure their later housing success. To support our clients progress, louison house staff provide budgeting and other supportive services to help meet the needs and individual goals of each person, in addition to developing service plans for housing success.
$576,090 spent24% of program spendingPreventative outreach support - preventative outreach support and emergency shelter aims to help people secure housing before reaching homelessness. Additionally, outreach to people who have left louison houses programs can help them retain their housing. This program provides supportive information and referrals to area resources to help prevent shelter housing. Emergency assistance - emergency beds assistance, especially during winter months, provides help to secure emergency shelter that louison house provides through referrals and placement. Food assistance is provided to help people in crisis to secure food until they can access local food resources. This is offered on limited basis to louison house program participants.
$338,918 spent$26,733 earned by the program14% of program spendingRepresentative payee program - the representative-payee program is designed to help social security recipients who are required by the social security administration (ssa) to have a payee manage their finances. Louison house, inc. Has one staff person assigned as a rep-payee to work part-time with these clients on an individual basis. The representative payee receives the ssi/ssdi benefits for enrolled clients and works with the clients to prioritize and pay for the current and foreseeable needs of the beneficiary. Move forward - move forward is centered on the participants goals to move forward and into affordable housing. Working with louison house staff, program participants engage in workforce development, financial planning, and other educational or life skills development in order to obtain and retain housing. Bns initiative - the bns initiative provides basic needs for food and shelter to those households moving into new apartment housing. To live safely and comfortably in a new apartment, people need furniture, household items, supplies and food. Louison house works hard to provide for basic needs by coordinating donations (furniture and household items), often also…
$123,243 spent$107,496 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,408,246.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.7M to $587k (−79%).
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 59% · 2018 62% · 2019 57% · 2020 57% · 2021 59% · 2022 61% · 2023 82% · 2024 78% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of LOUISON HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $42k → $77k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 LOUISON HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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
LOUISON HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 LOUISON HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 42% · 2019 48% · 2020 76% · 2021 80% · 2022 82% · 2023 29% — 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
50% of LOUISON HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
100% of LOUISON 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. $74k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LOUISON HOUSE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LOUISON HOUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $415k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$391k
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$23k
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 LOUISON 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
- Louison Properties Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOUISON HOUSE INC?
- LOUISON HOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,344,805 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($941,087). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOUISON HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,344,805 in grants to LOUISON HOUSE INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOUISON HOUSE INC?
- United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc is the largest funder on record, with $941,087 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOUISON 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.
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 15 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