Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE BOSTON HOME INC
THE BOSTON HOME INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,473,716 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($511,775). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $71M
What The Boston Home Inc does
Mission
The boston home seeks to improve the lives of adults with advanced multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 1881, the boston home is a not-for-profit, specialized residence and center for care for adults with advanced progressive neurological diseases including multiple sclerosis. We have been designated a "center for excellence in long term care" by the national multiple sclerosis society and are the only facility of our kind in new england and one of only a few in the united states. The boston home institute advances standards for care through research, education and advocacy.the boston home's outpatient wheelchair seating clinic brings together physical therapists, vendors and adaptive technology specialists who work with complex rehabilitation clients to prescribe, order and customize wheelchairs. B.fit!, our social day program, provides participants with a safe and socially enriching environment where they help shape a schedule of activities designed to achieve and maintain maximum levels of personal independence. The boston home's wheelchair enhancement center (wec) provides the greater boston disabled community with a resource for customized wheelchair solutions, emergency wheelchair repairs and service referrals for the myriad of mobility equipment and technological…
$17,060,923 spent$16,698,490 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,060,923.
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 2017 to 2018, from $79M to $65M (−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: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 11% · 2021 5% · 2022 6% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of THE BOSTON HOME INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Christine Reilly
President & CEO
Board chair
Virginia Soybel
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $58k → $459k.
6 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 THE BOSTON HOME INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
THE BOSTON HOME INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
32% 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 THE BOSTON HOME INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 49% · 2019 41% · 2020 20% · 2021 31% · 2022 30% · 2023 20% — 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
61% of THE BOSTON HOME INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
71% of THE BOSTON HOME 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. $859k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE BOSTON HOME INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding THE BOSTON HOME INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $94.7M on record.
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$94.3M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$362k
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$48k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$20
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 THE BOSTON HOME 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BOSTON HOME 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 THE BOSTON HOME INC?
- THE BOSTON HOME INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,473,716 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($511,775). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BOSTON HOME INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $3,473,716 in grants to THE BOSTON HOME INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BOSTON HOME INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $511,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BOSTON HOME 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 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