Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC
MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $898,064 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR METROWEST INC ($181,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 367 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Franklin Square House Foundation Incshared funders
- Cares of Ny Incportfolio match
- Center for Community Recovery Innovations Incportfolio match
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.
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 88% · 2018 88% · 2019 78% · 2020 77% · 2021 83% · 2022 79% · 2023 78% · 2024 77% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (12% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $52k → $63k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
66% 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 MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 28% · 2019 36% · 2020 27% · 2021 31% · 2022 31% · 2023 32% — 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 MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY 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. $399k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 25 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Franklin Square House Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Cares of Ny Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Community Recovery Innovations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Journey Home Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bright Horizons Foundation for Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Action Pioneer Valleyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Middlesex United Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ann Earle Talcott Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Home Builders Care Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zumiez Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.8M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$18.1M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$715k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$40
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 MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
91% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC?
- MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $898,064 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR METROWEST INC ($181,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $898,064 in grants to MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR METROWEST INC is the largest funder on record, with $181,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY 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 25funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing