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NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC

NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,870,584 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($6,036,055). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$154M
Revenue FY2025
22
Funders on record
$12M
Grants received
$28M
Net assets
8/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%

Against its field

NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve1.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)60% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14 housing & shelter nonprofits over $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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.4M) Net assets 100 ($3.4M)2018 Revenue 119 ($4.3M) Expenses 109 ($3.7M) Net assets 111 ($3.8M)2019 Revenue 120 ($4.3M) Expenses 123 ($4.2M) Net assets 114 ($3.9M)2020 Revenue 1428 ($52M) Expenses 1481 ($51M) Net assets 135 ($4.6M)2021 Revenue 2104 ($76M) Expenses 2162 ($75M) Net assets 183 ($6.3M)2022 Revenue 3818 ($138M) Expenses 3938 ($136M) Net assets 254 ($8.7M)2023 Revenue 2558 ($93M) Expenses 2590 ($89M) Net assets 352 ($12M)2024 Revenue 3460 ($125M) Expenses 3403 ($117M) Net assets 586 ($20M)2025 Revenue 4244 ($154M) Expenses 4221 ($146M) Net assets 819 ($28M)
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Revenue (4244)Expenses (4221)Net assets (819)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 36 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$170k
17
$561k
18
$88k
19
$603k
20
$1.6M
21
$2.3M
22
$3.2M
23
$7.8M
24
$8.0M
25
1.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $450k → $2.1M.

4 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $769k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Housing for Independent Living Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC raised.

From the IRS filings of NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE 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

NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

97% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC.

51%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 61% · 2019 68% · 2020 73% · 2021 55% · 2022 50% · 2023 72%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

22% of NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

62% of NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
RI
DC

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

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23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 22 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.

Federal$2.0M
grants $2.0Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.0M

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 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

90%

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 37 related entities

  • Holmes Street Realty Trust LLC · disregarded
  • Nwhs Holdings LLC · disregarded
  • Nhs Prence Meadowbrook Gp LLC · disregarded
  • Housing Solutions for Southeastern Massachusetts · exempt
  • Neighborhood Housing Finance Corporation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE 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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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 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC?
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,870,584 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($6,036,055). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $11,870,584 in grants to NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC?
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc is the largest funder on record, with $6,036,055 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE 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 22funders 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