Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC
SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,240,217 to it, the largest being THE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ($561,814). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $11M
What South Shore Community Action Council Inc does
Mission
South shore community action council works to eliminate poverty on the south shore by coordinating, strengthening, and supplementing community efforts to empower individuals and families so they can live in decency and with dignity, realize their full potential, and participate to the extent of their capabilities in all that our communities have to offer.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Energy program: the energy and utility assistance consists of three programs: liheap - fuel assistance program which provides eligible low income households with help in paying winter heating bills through payments to primary heat source vendors; heartwap - provides heating system repair and replacement services to fuel assistance program eligible homeowners primarily on an emergency basis; weatherization - assists low income households in reducing their heating bills by providing home energy efficiency services.
$9,765,669 spentof which $8,466,598 as grants33% of program spendingHead start/early head start: the head start/early head start program, located in three sites (plymouth, wareham and marshfield) provides education, family services, nutrition (meals), and health services to children and families. Children range in age from three months to five years. The families have limited incomes and meet federal income guidelines. Ten percent of the head start slots are for children with specials needs.
$6,358,217 spent22% of program spendingOther childcare: includes programs from the commonwealth of massachusetts including, early education and care, children and families, homeless and voucher programs. Services are provided to infants starting at 3 months old up to 10 year old school children through collaborative programs. These children receive a preschool curriculum similar to head start and receive nutritious meals as well.
$5,475,490 spent$232,365 earned by the program19% of program spendingOther: includes csbg admin and program funds.
$278,329 spent1% of program spendingClient assistance: includes funds from private utility companies in the area that supplement the federally funded heartwap and weatherization program services to low income clients, and various other programs assisting clients in areas of need such as rents, mortgages and utilities.
$1,965,459 spentof which $1,438,294 as grants7% of program spendingChild nutrition: provides nutritional services in the form of breakfast, lunch and snacks each day to eligible children.
$461,964 spent2% of program spendingTransportation: provides critical transportation services to eligible residents within the council's service area. Typical services range from medical trips to boston area hospitals, elderly and disabled client trips to adult day health and rehab centers and out of town special needs school transportation for local school districts.
$3,852,568 spent$27,986 earned by the program13% of program spendingFood resources: the council formed the food distribution center as one of a variety of strategies to provide food to more people on the south shore via coordination of locally donated food; including food storage for pantries and transportation of food to agencies serving low income families.
$1,344,617 spent5% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,502,313.
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 2023 to 2024, from $15M to $17M (+18%).
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: 2020 81% · 2021 81% · 2022 86% · 2023 84% · 2024 82% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Lisa Spencer
Chief executive officer th
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $58k → $438k.
7 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
59% 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 SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 58% · 2019 41% · 2020 25% · 2021 16% · 2022 27% · 2023 48% — 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
39% of SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
90% of SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL 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. $336k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $53.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$53.8M
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 SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL 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
93% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC?
- SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,240,217 to it, the largest being THE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ($561,814). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,240,217 in grants to SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC?
- THE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC is the largest funder on record, with $561,814 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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