Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC
THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $415,936 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE FRANKLIN & HAMPSHIRE REGION ($140,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $612k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $416k
- Net assets
- $164k
What The Brick House Community Resource Center Inc does
Mission
See schedule oour mission is to support youth and family well-being by providing a place in turners falls for creativity and learning, growth and leadership, and strengthening community connection. We run teen center, youth substance misuse prevention, parent/family, art, food pantry/basic needs programs & share our space with creative arts & community groups.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Parent and family programs - expanded to include greater parent/family support programming, one-on-one assistance, public health, workforce readiness, nutrition, trauma mitigation , education & spanish language programming for families & adults. We also run regional inter-agency & community coalitions & host regional agencies for one-off programs at the brick house.
$149,389 spent32% of program spendingYouth at risk program - we run an afterschool & summer teen center, substance misuse prevention mentoring in local schools, as well as other enrichment activities for youth. We also run substance misuse prevention mentoring programs in regional schools.
$291,751 spent62% of program spendingYouthreach & community arts - the brick house expanded their arts programming for the teen center, parents & families program, to enlist local artists to share their gifts with youth, families and the community at large. Our programming includes music, visual art, crafts and dance. We share our music, dance, art studios and intimate performance space with the community for rehearsals, classes, meetings and performances.
$19,200 spent4% of program spendingBasic needs/food pantry - the brick house runs a food pantry, distrributing twice weekly food pantry to the community, providing hygeine/sanitary supplies and periodic free distribution of coats, school bags and other needed items. Alsso coordinates the montague food security coalition, redistributing produce to other pantries & running programs to reduce food insecurity in montague.
$10,700 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $471,040.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $173k to $229k (+33%).
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 73% · 2021 59% · 2022 65% · 2023 76% · 2024 79% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Thomas Taaffe
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $18k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER 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
THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 38% · 2023 70% — 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
80% of THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% 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
87% of THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER 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. $204k 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
THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC?
- THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $415,936 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE FRANKLIN & HAMPSHIRE REGION ($140,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $415,936 in grants to THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE FRANKLIN & HAMPSHIRE REGION is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER 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 2020–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing