Massachusetts · Nonprofit
The Gray House Inc
The Gray House Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $659,270 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($193,766). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Regionshared funders
- Spectrum Health Systems Incportfolio match
- Beth Israel Senior Citizens Housing Incportfolio match
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.
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: 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.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $31k → $157k.
8 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 45 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 29% 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
56% 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.
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; 62% 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
The Gray House Inc draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $256k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 45 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Regionshared fundersMA · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
- Spectrum Health Systems Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beth Israel Senior Citizens Housing Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Worcester County Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Literacy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alternatives for Youth Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alfred Chase Charity Fdn Uiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Eileen Patricia Sullivan Roche Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bluestone Bank Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jack and Kathy Shields Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George P Bishop Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- DCU for Kidsshared fundersMA · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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.
- (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.
Organizations like The Gray House Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Gray House 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Gray House Inc?
- The Gray House Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $659,270 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($193,766). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Gray House Inc have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $659,270 in grants to The Gray House Inc, 28 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.
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 45funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing