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OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC

OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,716,708 to it, the largest being HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC ($445,852). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$85M
Funders on record
43
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$42M
25/43 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Open Sky Community Services Inc does

Mission

Open sky community services, inc. Provides a wide array of services for adults with developmental and psychiatric disabilities that address their needs for a comfortable and safe home life, meaningful daily occupations, active community participation, and relationships.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Adult community clinical services (accs) are provided to adults with mental health challenges through residential group living environments and supported living services for individuals living in their own homes. Services are individualized, goal-oriented and incorporate evidence-based and best practice interventions. Each residential program offers individuals the opportunity to access diverse skill-building activities, treatment, counseling and supports in a highly structured therapeutic environment. Services for supported housing vary in intensity and frequency, ranging from high supports to more basic intermittent support, depending on the needs of the individual.

    $20,837,805 spent$2,011,138 earned by the program
    28% of program spending
  2. Dds residential services are provided for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities as well as acquired brain injury. Service goals include activities for daily living and social skills development. Community inclusion is a primary focus. Approximately 160 individuals were served in the residential programs.

    $21,388,123 spent$1,127,662 earned by the program
    29% of program spending
  3. Shared living programs allow adults with disabilities to become part of a host family, with all of the benefits and responsibilities that sharing a life and a household entail. The host family helps the individual connect with the wider community and provides the necessary personal assistance and training. Adult foster care (afc) is a program that provides both financial support and practical assistance to families who are caring for a family member at home. Afc is also available to help support qualifying individuals placed in homes with caregivers who are not relatives.

    $5,365,003 spent$4,823,625 earned by the program
    7% of program spending
  4. Child, adolescent, and young adult services (cayas) are for adolescents and young adults that include structured residential programs, flexible supports (ffs), the intensive home based therapeutic care program (ihbtc), and the place for empowerment. Youth receiving group care services attend school in the community, while young adults attend school, day programs, job readiness programs or maintain jobs. While doing so, they are working to enhance their personal, social, and independent living skills. All of this is aimed at reunification with their families or transition to independent living. Ffs services assist youth and their family members to develop skills, strategies and supports to sustain the youth in the family's natural environment, and to help the youth successfully function in the community. The place for empowerment is a space for young adults who may be struggling with mental health, substance use, trauma, or feeling disconnected.

    $2,218,550 spent$2,553 earned by the program
    3% of program spending
  5. Dds day services are provided to individuals with developmental disabilities. The program focus is on developing skills toward a meaningful employment for those individuals able to work and develop meaningful day activities within their communities.

    $2,914,972 spent$2,563,566 earned by the program
    4% of program spending
  6. Dds other includes supported living, the family support center and autism support. Supported living programs offer the training and support individuals with developmental disabilities need to live in their own apartments. Whether living on their own, or in a shared apartment with a friend, participants are supported and visited by a team of service coordinators. Autism support services assist young adults who are aging out of school but need continued supports, as well as older individuals who have been unsuccessful in navigating their environment, in achieving their life goals and dreams.

    $1,748,833 spent$5,147 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  7. Dmh other includes respite, clubhouse, and aggressive treatment and relapse prevention (atarp) services. Respite services are short term in nature and are provided in group or community settings. These services are designed to assist individuals to remain safely in the community while dealing with many of life's challenges. The clubhouse is a community dedicated to the rehabilitation of adults recovering from mental illness. Through a variety of meaningful and engaging tasks, members have the ability to develop or refresh employment skills, explore educational opportunities and participate in social activities. The atarp program is to help individuals who have co-occurring mental health challenges and substance use disorders. The program includes assistance in locating housing, housing subsidies, treatment services, assistance with benefits, access to medical care, wraparound supports to help individuals be successful in the community, assistance with employment and education and other supports as needed.

    $3,381,711 spent$41,279 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  8. Other includes transportation, safe homes, oasis, central community health partnership (cchp) and training & consultation services. Transportation services are provided to meet the transit needs of the individuals served. Daily door-to-door transportation is provided so individuals can get to day programs, jobs and volunteer sites. Safe homes provides a weekly educational and social support drop-in center for lgbtqia+ you and their allies. The program provides mental health counseling, educational programming, peer leader training, referrals, advocacy, recreational activities and emergency supports. Training and consultation services are provided through the bridge training institute and offer continuing education workshops and personalized consultation services that focus on evidence-based and best practice treatment models for human services professionals and licensed clinicians. The oasis co-occurring enhanced residential rehabilitation services (coe-rrs) is a 16-bed treatment program. Oasis partners with harrington hospital to provide 6-12 months of clinical and recovery support services to individuals with both a mental health and substance use disorder diagnosis. Cchp is…

    $13,599,967 spentof which $394,792 as grants$5,420,213 earned by the program
    19% of program spending
  9. Outpatient services include the bridge counseling center and the rapid response hub (rrh). The bridge counseling center provides person-centered mental health services and offer evidence-based medication and cogitative-behavioral treatments.

    $1,754,026 spent$548,339 earned by the program
    2% of program spending

The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $73,208,990.

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 ($45M) Expenses 100 ($45M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 103 ($47M) Expenses 103 ($46M) Net assets 104 ($13M)2019 Revenue 169 ($77M) Expenses 171 ($77M) Net assets 116 ($14M)2020 Revenue 183 ($83M) Expenses 179 ($80M) Net assets 123 ($15M)2021 Revenue 186 ($85M) Expenses 182 ($81M) Net assets 144 ($18M)2022 Revenue 211 ($96M) Expenses 206 ($92M) Net assets 157 ($19M)2023 Revenue 263 ($119M) Expenses 227 ($102M) Net assets 303 ($37M)2024 Revenue 250 ($113M) Expenses 248 ($111M) Net assets 325 ($40M)2025 Revenue 187 ($85M) Expenses 184 ($83M) Net assets 347 ($42M)
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Revenue (187)Expenses (184)Net assets (347)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 2018 to 2019, from $27M to $66M (+142%).

$27M
$27M
$66M
$38M
$50M
$49M
$72M
$75M
$78M
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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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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 79% · 2018 79% · 2019 88% · 2020 89% · 2021 87% · 2022 85% · 2023 89% · 2024 81% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,400 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.

$621k
’17
$398k
’18
$115k
’19
$3.0M
’20
$3.1M
’21
$3.5M
’22
$18M
’23
$2.2M
’24
$2.3M
’25
3.6
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

Kenneth J Bates

President and CEO

Board chair

Mary Ellen Larkin-Root

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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Listed151421222521253233
Joined·+2+14+5+5+1+7+10+6
No longer listed·37425335
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $44k → $152k.

6 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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

OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

72% 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 OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC.

26%
largest funder
44%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 65% · 2019 71% · 2020 62% · 2021 36% · 2022 26% · 2023 22% — 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

29% of OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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

91% of OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NH
MA
IN
PA
NJ
RI
CA
NC
TX

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. $212k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $226.5M on record.

State$226.5M
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Top programs
  • (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$182.8M
  • (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$35.2M
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$8.4M
  • (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$50k
  • (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$6k
  • (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$3k

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 OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 7 related entities

  • Alternative Apartments LLC · disregarded
  • Valleycast Inc · exempt
  • North Central Human Services Inc · exempt
  • Educational Living Residences Inc · exempt
  • 35 Catherine Street Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,716,708 to it, the largest being HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC ($445,852). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $1,716,708 in grants to OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC is the largest funder on record, with $445,852 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 43 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