Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SYMMES LIFE CARE INC D/B/A BROOKHAVEN AT LEXINGTON
SYMMES LIFE CARE INC D/B/A BROOKHAVEN AT LEXINGTON (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,157 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($63,370). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $38M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $86k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Symmes Life Care Inc D/B/A Brookhaven at Lexington does
Mission
The organization provides housing, meals, wellness programs, healthcare, skilled nursing and other support services to the elderly. The community is comprised of 289 independent living units, 49 assisted care units, and a 12 bed medicare licensed nursing facility.brookhaven has a robust social accountability program to support local community organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The independent living program supports residents who can live in private apartments independently in a safe and healthy manner. Housing support services include housekeeping, linen service, one meal per day and an emergency call system. All supportive programming endeavors to incorporate a whole person wellness approach, I.e. Each program includes one or more of the six dimensions of wellness: physical, social, vocational, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. Healthcare support services include an hour per day of assistance with daily living as needed by a personal care assistant, on-site doctor's office hours, support groups and problem solving around issues of aging. At the fiscal year-end, there were 381 within this program.
$25,466,283 spent$30,215,613 earned by the program82% of program spendingThe assisted care program provides housing and support services to residents with mild cognitive and/or physical impairment who can not live independently. All the benefits and programming of independent living are available to residents in assisted care. Additional services include three meals a day, booking of appointments and transportation, care planning, and medication management. The unit is staffed by a personal care assistant 24 hours per day. A nurse is available 24 hours per day and is responsible for individual care planning and ongoing medical consultation. At the fiscal-year end there were 47 within this program.
$3,373,861 spent$3,549,769 earned by the program11% of program spendingThe skilled nursing facility provides private and semi-private room & board accommodations and three meals per day. All the benefits and programming of independent living and assisted care are available to residents of the health center. Additional benefits in the health center include 24 hour per day skilled nursing care, social services, restorative therapies, therapeutic meals, on-site ancillary services, such as podiatry and laboratory services and physician services. Activities programming is both individualized and group oriented. At the fiscal year-end there were 6 within this program.
$2,127,305 spent$1,040,186 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,967,449.
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 2019 to 2020, from $162M to $185M (+14%).
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 1% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of SYMMES LIFE CARE INC D/B/A BROOKHAVEN AT LEXINGTON’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 3 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
James M Freehling
CEO/president
Board chair
Pamela Mcnamara
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $6k → $5k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 SYMMES LIFE CARE INC D/B/A BROOKHAVEN AT LEXINGTON’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
SYMMES LIFE CARE INC D/B/A BROOKHAVEN AT LEXINGTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 SYMMES LIFE CARE INC D/B/A BROOKHAVEN AT LEXINGTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of SYMMES LIFE CARE INC D/B/A BROOKHAVEN AT LEXINGTON'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k 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.
Against its field
SYMMES LIFE CARE INC D/B/A BROOKHAVEN AT LEXINGTON holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 SYMMES LIFE CARE INC D/B/A BROOKHAVEN AT LEXINGTON?
- SYMMES LIFE CARE INC D/B/A BROOKHAVEN AT LEXINGTON (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,157 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($63,370). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SYMMES LIFE CARE INC D/B/A BROOKHAVEN AT LEXINGTON have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $86,157 in grants to SYMMES LIFE CARE INC D/B/A BROOKHAVEN AT LEXINGTON, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SYMMES LIFE CARE INC D/B/A BROOKHAVEN AT LEXINGTON?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $63,370 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SYMMES LIFE CARE INC D/B/A BROOKHAVEN AT LEXINGTON 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 4 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