Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC
SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $551,550 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($251,550). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $789k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $552k
- Net assets
- $634k
What Second Street Second Chances Inc does
Mission
Research and community leaders confirm that incarcerated individuals who receive support greatly increase their chances to continue on a path to responsible citizenship and positive engagement. Second street second chances, inc. Mission is to treat formerly incarcerated individuals with respect and encouragement, provide them with job readiness skills and access to job opportunities, preparing them to become productive and contributing members of their communities, and educating and advocating for communities to embrace them as such.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Second street coordinates a myriad of services, on site and within the community, at a convenient and welcoming one-stop facility. Prior to a person being released from the berkshire county house of corrections, they are made aware of the services provided at second street. The first 72 hours after release are critical to the clients success. Our community resource navigators connect with them to assess their needs. Services and referrals are provided regardless of how long ago incarceration took place and include: medical mental health substance use disorder services financial resources and literacy transportation family reunification housing employment job training legal services support and encouragement the staff at second street works with each client to develop and individualized re-entry plan.
$873,960 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $873,960.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $442k to $636k (+44%).
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: 2022 31% · 2023 28% · 2024 55% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $116k → $192k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES 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
SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 46% · 2023 49% — 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.
Where its funders are
88% of SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES 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. $267k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,661 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,661 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $675k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$675k
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 SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES 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 SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC?
- SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $551,550 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($251,550). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $551,550 in grants to SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC?
- BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $251,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 10 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