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SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC

SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,695 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($93,100). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$28M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$250k
Net assets
$4.4M
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What South Shore Support Services Inc does

Mission

To provide support services to individuals who have developmental disabilities though family and individual services, residential programs, specialized home care, case management, housing programs, childrens programs and education advocacy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To provide support service to individuals with developmental disabilites through agency with choice

    $8,168,139 spent$9,649,711 earned by the program
    32% of program spending
  2. To provide support service to individuals with developmental disabilites through residential programs

    $7,943,314 spent$7,912,999 earned by the program
    31% of program spending
  3. To provide support service to individuals with developmental disabilites through an adult foster care program

    $4,254,453 spent$4,542,229 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  4. To provide support service to individuals with developmental disabilites through individual support programs

    $1,564,514 spent$1,656,216 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  5. To provide support service to individuals with developmental disabilites community based day programs

    $1,441,847 spent$1,249,905 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  6. To provide support service to individuals with developmental disabilites through a family support center

    $1,204,918 spent$1,530,121 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  7. To provide remote supports to individuals with disabilities

    $766,267 spent$1,051,051 earned by the program
    3% of program spending
  8. To provide support service to individuals with developmental disabilites specialized home care

    $180,233 spent$252,634 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

The 8 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,523,685.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($9.4M) Expenses 100 ($9.7M) Net assets 100 ($648k)2019 Revenue 101 ($9.5M) Expenses 96 ($9.3M) Net assets 130 ($841k)2020 Revenue 122 ($12M) Expenses 110 ($11M) Net assets 253 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 141 ($13M) Expenses 138 ($13M) Net assets 252 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 188 ($18M) Expenses 179 ($17M) Net assets 295 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 242 ($23M) Expenses 212 ($21M) Net assets 654 ($4.2M)2024 Revenue 241 ($23M) Expenses 237 ($23M) Net assets 619 ($4.0M)2025 Revenue 297 ($28M) Expenses 284 ($28M) Net assets 678 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (297)Expenses (284)Net assets (678)Peer revenue range

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 $2.9M to $5.9M (+106%).

$1.4M
$1.3M
$2.1M
$2.5M
$2.9M
$5.9M
$6.3M
$9.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

1% of SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,405 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$274k
’18
$193k
’19
$800k
’20
−$5k
’21
$279k
’22
$2.3M
’23
−$228k
’24
$384k
’25
0.8
months of
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

Mary T Burt

Exec dir - 40

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+1+2+2+4+1+3
No longer listed·0303333
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $17k → $19k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 SUPPORT SERVICES 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

SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

89% 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 SUPPORT SERVICES INC.

37%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 58% · 2019 50% · 2020 63% · 2021 58% · 2022 43% · 2023 59% — broadly stable.

“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

40% of SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

99% of SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC?
SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,695 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($93,100). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $249,695 in grants to SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $93,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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