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Providence Ministries for the Needy Inc

Providence Ministries for the Needy Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $805,811 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($236,628). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$2.6M
Revenue FY2024
23
Funders on record
$806k
Grants received
$788k
Net assets
13/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%

Against its field

Providence Ministries for the Needy Inc has grown faster than half of the 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($918k)2018 Revenue 105 ($1.1M) Expenses 107 ($1.2M) Net assets 96 ($879k)2019 Revenue 112 ($1.2M) Expenses 116 ($1.3M) Net assets 89 ($814k)2021 Revenue 173 ($1.8M) Expenses 154 ($1.7M) Net assets 105 ($965k)2022 Revenue 177 ($1.9M) Expenses 167 ($1.8M) Net assets 108 ($992k)2023 Revenue 270 ($2.9M) Expenses 271 ($2.9M) Net assets 107 ($980k)2024 Revenue 241 ($2.6M) Expenses 256 ($2.8M) Net assets 86 ($788k)
2017201820192021202220232024
Revenue (241)Expenses (256)Net assets (86)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
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

77% of Providence Ministries for the Needy Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,227 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
17
$41k
18
$66k
19
$180k
21
$67k
22
$54k
23
$217k
24
0.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $33k → $120k.

8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)66% 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 Providence Ministries for the Needy 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

Providence Ministries for the Needy Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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

86% 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 Providence Ministries for the Needy Inc.

29%
largest funder
56%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 26% · 2019 26% · 2020 58% · 2021 52% · 2022 40% · 2023 53%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

31% of Providence Ministries for the Needy Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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

66% of Providence Ministries for the Needy 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. Of the $277k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

VT
MA
NJ
MD
NC

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. $529k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

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 23 funders put you typical 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.

Organizations like Providence Ministries for the Needy 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

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited 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

  • Sisters of Providence Ministry Corp · exempt
  • Sisters of Providence Inc · exempt
  • Genesis Spiritual Life Center · exempt
  • Hillside Residence Inc · exempt
  • Hillside at Providence Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Providence Ministries for the Needy 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 Providence Ministries for the Needy Inc?
Providence Ministries for the Needy Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $805,811 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($236,628). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Providence Ministries for the Needy Inc have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $805,811 in grants to Providence Ministries for the Needy Inc, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Providence Ministries for the Needy Inc?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS is the largest funder on record, with $236,628 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Providence Ministries for the Needy 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23funders 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