Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PASSIVE HOUSE NEW ENGLAND INC
PASSIVE HOUSE NEW ENGLAND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43,028 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($43,028). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $250k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $230k
What Passive House New England Inc does
Mission
Passive House Massachusetts is a member-based non-profit organization that promotes a healthy and comfortable built environment that significantly reduces energy consumption and lowers carbon emissions by utilizing the Passive House building standard and other high-performance building strategies, focusing on education, training, outreach, and advocacy. We regularly host meetings, trainings, tours, and other events related to Passive House design and construction and serve as a hub of knowledge for high-performance design in the state and region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
We conducted research to assess the training needs of the high-performance building industry, the barriers and obstacles involved, the availability of existing training programs, and provide recommendations for future program development.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Our Annual Passive House Symposium is a one-day, intensive educational event feature presentations and Q&A for architects, engineers, builders, building owners, developers, government officials, students, other Passive House professionals, and the general public. It featured four technical sessions and a Keynote address by Massachusetts' Undersecretary of Decarbonization & Resilience. The event had 206 attendees. Presentation slides are available at https://phmass.org/symposium24/. Expenses include venue rental, audiovisual equipment rental, and food for attendees.
$49,687 spent$35,925 earned by the program42% of program spendingOur second main program service is providing regular and on-demand training and education programing for architects, contractors, engineers, town officials, developers, homeowners, and others on high-performance buildings and the Passive House standard, including Lunch and Learns, Workshops, Presentations, Case Studies, and related content. We held 15 of these training events reaching 675 participants. Video recordings of our events (available publicly in our Video Library at https://passivehousema.org/video-library) reached a further 1,591 people. Expenses include contractor labor to organize, prepare, and deliver these events.
$34,494 spent$14,762 earned by the program29% of program spendingOur third main program service is conducting research to assess the training needs of the high-performance building industry, the barriers and obstacles involved, the availability of existing training programs, and provide recommendations for future program development. We compiled existing data on contractors and their current role in clean energy and Passive House construction through an in-depth survey of 19 contractors. We analyzed the Passive House and High-Performance Building market and identified potential growth areas. We developed an outreach plan for contractors in the construction, contracting, trades and related industries. And we shared the results with peer organizations. This work was supported by a $50,000 grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (reported in Part VIII, line 1). Expenses include contractor labor to conduct this research.
$34,493 spent29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $118,674.
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 $143k to $233k (+63%).
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: 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of PASSIVE HOUSE NEW ENGLAND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $21k → $22k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PASSIVE HOUSE NEW ENGLAND 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.
Where its funders are
100% of PASSIVE HOUSE NEW ENGLAND INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PASSIVE HOUSE NEW ENGLAND INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PASSIVE HOUSE NEW ENGLAND 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
65% 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 PASSIVE HOUSE NEW ENGLAND 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds PASSIVE HOUSE NEW ENGLAND INC?
- PASSIVE HOUSE NEW ENGLAND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43,028 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($43,028). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PASSIVE HOUSE NEW ENGLAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $43,028 in grants to PASSIVE HOUSE NEW ENGLAND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PASSIVE HOUSE NEW ENGLAND INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $43,028 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PASSIVE HOUSE NEW ENGLAND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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