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The Gray House Inc

The Gray House Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $683,270 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($193,766). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$751k
Funders on record
46
Grants received
$683k
Net assets
$1.6M
30/46 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What The Gray House Inc does

Mission

The mission of the gray house is to help its neighbors facing hardships to meet their immediate and transitional needs by providing food, clothing, and educational services in a safe, positive environment in the north end of springfield.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Emergency food pantry and clothing distributionthe market at gray house provides food to people in need. In addition to thursdays from 9am to 12 noon, the market is open the second and fourth friday of each month from 3:30pm to 5:00pm to accommodate the working poor in the area. In addition, our market expanded to include a special distribution for seniors (55+) and veterans to the second friday of each month in the afternoon. This program served 17,817 duplicate households during the fiscal year. Lastly, the gray house provides hats, gloves, scarves and other winter wear items to those in need.

    $136,962 spent
    47% of program spending
  2. Kids' club after school and summer programthe kids' club program helps children living in sprinfield between the ages of 7 and 12 who live in poverty every monday through thursday afternoon from septemberthrough may/june. Enrolled children come to the gray house to receive a healthy snack, homework assistance, and to participate in enriching, educational activities. Our fourweek summer program welcomes low-income children living in springfield between the ages of 7 and 12 to participate in literacy support, hand-on steam activities, and connect with community mentors. 25 unique children were served through this program during the fiscal year.

    $86,080 spent
    30% of program spending
  3. Adult education programthe adult education program focuses on helping migrants, refugees, and asyleesimprove their english language skills while incorporating critical life skills. It offers small group classes in fundamental skills instruction (reading, writing, math, finance, health, and digital literacy), beginner english for speakers of other languages (esol), as well as literacy development. 109 adult learners were enrolled in the program during the fiscal year.

    $66,879 spent
    23% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $289,921.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($360k) Expenses 100 ($268k) Net assets 100 ($411k)2018 Revenue 81 ($291k) Expenses 94 ($251k) Net assets 110 ($454k)2019 Revenue 79 ($284k) Expenses 103 ($277k) Net assets 113 ($465k)2020 Revenue 101 ($364k) Expenses 106 ($283k) Net assets 130 ($536k)2021 Revenue 141 ($507k) Expenses 115 ($308k) Net assets 182 ($748k)2022 Revenue 131 ($470k) Expenses 130 ($347k) Net assets 211 ($868k)2023 Revenue 163 ($589k) Expenses 159 ($426k) Net assets 253 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 175 ($633k) Expenses 153 ($409k) Net assets 311 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 208 ($751k) Expenses 146 ($392k) Net assets 399 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (208)Expenses (146)Net assets (399)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.3M to $1.7M (+28%).

$421k
$460k
$472k
$578k
$762k
$889k
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.7M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 14% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 18% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$93k
’17
$40k
’18
$8k
’19
$81k
’20
$199k
’21
$124k
’22
$163k
’23
$224k
’24
$359k
’25
35
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.

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Listed151516171510111110
Joined·+2+4+3+3+2+2+0+1
No longer listed·23257102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $31k → $157k.

8 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Gray House Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 Gray House Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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

55% 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 Gray House Inc.

28%
largest funder
40%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 52% · 2019 29% · 2020 24% · 2021 52% · 2022 19% · 2023 51% — growing more concentrated.

“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

27% of The Gray House Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

The Gray House Inc draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 13 states in all.

ME
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
NJ
CT
RI
TN
NC
TX
FL

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

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’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

Government funding The Gray House Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $63k on record.

State$63k
21
22
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$63k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 20%Fundraising 6%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

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 The Gray House Inc?
The Gray House Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $683,270 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($193,766). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Gray House Inc have?
IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $683,270 in grants to The Gray House Inc, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Gray House Inc?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS is the largest funder on record, with $193,766 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Gray House 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 46 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