Massachusetts · Nonprofit
LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC
LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,502,641 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($500,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Lynn Shelter Association Inc does
Mission
The lynn shelter association (lsa) believes every person deserves a place to call home. Lsa's mission is to provide a safe environment for each individual to define and pursue their goals for independence and self-sufficiency and offers shelter, supportive services, housings solutions, permanent supportive housing, and access to a continuum of community supports to more than 800 homeless and formerly homeless individuals and families each year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The organization opened a new family shelter that added 28 units to the portfolio from 64 units to 92 units.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Family shelter program: this program is made up of 4 congregate shelters located in residential neighborhoods in lynn massachusetts. The shelters provide 92 shelter units. The program provides shelter, support and food to homeless families with children. It also provides on-site case management, training for parenting skills, financial skills, housing search, job search, and benefit maximization. The program also ensures the participants are registered with medical and mental health services within 30 days of arrival. Funding for the program is primarily from the massachusetts department of housing and community development (dhcd) and the massachusetts department of public health (dph). This program served approximately 123 individuals during the year.
$4,469,892 spent65% of program spendingAdult shelter program: this program is also known as the lynn emergency shelter and is located in downtown lynn massachusetts. The program provides emergency shelter and services to homeless adults. The shelter is a housing first model shelter that promotes self-sufficiency. Funding for the program is primarily from the massachusetts department of housing and community development (dhcd). This program served approximately 142 individuals during the year.
$967,042 spent14% of program spendingCase management program: this program provides workshops, supportive services, and referrals to mental health services to participants in permanent housing units. This program is funded through contracts with various mental health and public housing agencies. This program served approximately 97 individuals during the year.
$959,536 spent14% of program spendingPermanent housing program: this program provides housing units and case management services to chronically and disabled homeless individuals, families, and veterans through sponsor based and supportive housing programs primarily funded by a hud continuum of care program grant administered by lynn housing and neighborhood development (lhand) and bridgewell inc. This program served approximately 84 individuals during the year.
$496,932 spent$438,782 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,893,402.
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 $3.7M to $9.9M (+168%).
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: 2021 74% · 2022 62% · 2023 74% · 2024 77% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION 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. 2 of the last 8 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
Mark Evans
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $178k → $107k.
5 of 33 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 LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
27% 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 LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 57% · 2019 41% · 2020 19% · 2021 55% · 2022 34% · 2023 38% — 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
35% of LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION 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
91% of LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION 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. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC has grown faster than half 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 LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$2.4M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$948k
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 LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION 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
94%
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 3 related entities
- Housing Opportunities and Management Enterprises Inc · exempt
- Osmund Owner LLC · partnership
- Osmund Mm LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC?
- LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,502,641 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($500,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,502,641 in grants to LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC?
- FIDELITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION 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 33 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