Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC
SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 188 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,360,366 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,425,693). 139 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 188
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $51M
What Saint Francis House Inc does
Mission
St. Francis house rebuilds lives by providing refuge and pathways to stability for adults experiencing homelessness and poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Homeless day shelter - st. Francis house is the largest provider of day services to the homeless in greater boston. In fiscal year 2025, 9,695 homeless individuals, an average of 489 per day, received basic services to include: 252,319 meals served annually averaging 261 guests per day; 13,262 clothing appointments annually; 1,170 clinical support and case management contacts annually; partnered with boston healthcare for the homeless to provide medical care to 938 patients in the onsite clinic.
$6,794,769 spent$5,651 earned by the program50% of program spendingHousing (residential service, rapid rehousing, and housing placement) - next step and the union are supportive, leased-housing communities providing 102 permanent housing units for adults with a history of homelessness. The rapid rehousing program provides medium term rental and financial assistance, housing navigation, and stabilization services to individuals who are experiencing homelessness as they transition to permanent housing. Professional case managers provide individual support, develop life skills, and linkages to sfh and community resources that will assist residents in reintegrating into their new housing community and increasing stabilization. During the year, 156 clients were housed and received housing stabilization services in rapid rehousing. The housing placement program provides short-term assistance to individuals experiencing homelessness by conducting assessments that can support them with being matched to permanent housing and providing housing navigation services to assist them with obtaining vital documents, housing search, and lease ups. The housing placement program served 123 individuals with assessments this year.
$3,780,761 spent$398,023 earned by the program28% of program spendingWorkforce development - the moving ahead program (map) is a unique, holistic, vocational rehabilitation program that prepares adults who are experiencing homelessness and/or are low-income find and maintain employment. Map supports students to identify and address personal and professional barriers to self-sufficiency and provides the necessary tools and opportunities to secure meaningful, lasting employment. During the year, 97 individuals participated in the map program. Income max provides 1:1 services to adults. Coaches help with job searches, resumes, connections to cori friendly employers, obtaining workplace attire, and prepping for remote or in-person interviews. Participants also work to increase their income by applying for public benefits that they're eligible for such as snap and disability benefits. During this year, 144 individuals were served in income max.
$1,650,219 spent12% of program spendingRecovery support center - room to grow is dedicated to helping guests strengthen their sobriety by providing community, activities, meals and support. The center runs on a peer participatory model; operated by and for people in recovery. The center is about people helping each other strengthen their recovery while also working to create a shared vision of what a vibrant recovery community can look like. During the year, 1534 individuals participated in this program.
$764,704 spent6% of program spendingClinical day treatment - the seeds of change program provides intensive outpatient therapuetic services to individuals who struggle with substance use and addiction. Services are provided one on one and in a group setting. Groups run in cohorts that are 4 weeks, mon-fri 8am to 12pm. During the year, 246 individuals were served and 31 graduated from day treatment services.
$646,810 spent5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,637,263.
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 $33M to $45M (+38%).
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 26% · 2018 26% · 2019 31% · 2020 23% · 2021 40% · 2022 37% · 2023 35% · 2024 42% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Karen Lafrazia
President and CEO
Board chair
Timothy S Egan Esq
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 45 funders to 97 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $4.3M.
29 of 188 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 188 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
SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
49% 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 SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 55% · 2019 44% · 2020 31% · 2021 53% · 2022 30% · 2023 19% — 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
56% of SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
92% of SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE 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. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.
Against its field
SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.9M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$14.8M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$5.1M
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$15k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$800
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 SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Sfh Seeds of Change LLC · disregarded
- Sfh 48 Boylston Street LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC?
- SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 188 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,360,366 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,425,693). 139 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 188 organizations giving $29,360,366 in grants to SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC, 139 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,425,693 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE 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.
Play a game about who funds Saint Francis House →
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 188 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing