Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 315 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,570,133 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,067,933). 195 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $106M
- Funders on record
- 315
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $99M
What The Home for Little Wanderers Inc does
Mission
To help vulnerable children and their families build permanent, positive change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community-based programs: the home provides an array of clinical and support services throughout eastern massachusetts and new york city. Children and families receive services in the locations that are most appropriate for their needs: a child's own home, school, or clinic.community-based programs include:- adoption and comprehensive foster care- child and family counseling- children's community support collaborative - center for early childhood- safe at home- therapeutic after school program- family resource center- out at home- massstart- wediko new york- pact y - connected family respite- parent support program- new hampshire call center-youth on fire
$30,944,158 spent$33,057,894 earned by the program39% of program spendingResidential & special education: therapeutic residential programs are staff-secure facilities for children and adolescents who have either been removed from their homes due to abuse and neglect, or who have difficulty functioning in the community due to behavioral or mental health concerns. The home operates three private, state-approved, year-round special education schools for academically and emotionally challenged youth. The schools offer highly structured therapeutic behavior support systems, have small class sizes, a high staff-to-student ratio and support that is tailored to each student's needs and treatment plan. The three facilities are:- cove school - southeast campus, plymouth, ma - co-ed ages 10 to 18- the home in walpole - clifford academy, walpole, ma - co-ed ages 5 to 18- the wediko school, windsor, nh boys ages 10-18
$19,511,714 spent$20,982,365 earned by the program24% of program spendingGroup homes: children and adolescents transitioning back to their families, progressing to less restrictive environments or preparing to live independently, frequently need support to make a successful move. The home operates five group homes providing individualized treatment and services to the youth and their families. - harrington house, mission hill - co-ed ages 6 to 12- the home in walpole, walpole, ma - co-ed ages 12 to 18 - unity house, keene, nh co-ed ages 14 to 18 (lgbtq population)- waltham house, waltham - co-ed ages 14 to 18 (lgbtq population)- youth community crisis stabilization (yccs) co-ed ages 13 to 18 (located at the home in walpole)
$19,693,348 spent$20,214,712 earned by the program25% of program spendingCase management services: the home serves in a coordination capacity for two family-focused programs in boston. Providing a single point of entry for all services, the programs employ the wraparound approach which places the family at the center of planning process and builds a team around the family's vision for their child's future:- the hyde park and park street community service agencies serve youth with serious emotional disturbance (sed) who are enrolled in masshealth standard or commonhealth. This program is part of the massachusetts children's behavioral health initiative (cbhi).- family networks (park street area lead) partners with park street department of children and families (dcf). The program works only with clients referred from dcf, acting as a single point of entry for all contracted services identified in the dcf service plan.
$2,760,113 spent$3,961,116 earned by the program3% of program spendingTransitional programs: the home offers a number of programs for those moving into adulthood who need additional help and resources to further their educational and vocational goals and to prepare them for meaningful lives:- hillsborough village scattered site apartments programing aimed to create an intermediate step between our program-based units and independent living.- roxbury village provides safe, affordable housing for youth who are - or are at risk of being homeless, while helping them to develop critical skills, life plans and connections to community resources.- somerville village: support for higher education enables young women who are homeless or at-risk for homelessness to pursue post-secondary education by providing housing, therapeutic, emotional, and educational supports.- roxbury village provides transitional housing for young adults between ages of 18-22, who have typically been involved with the child welfare system.- liberty village is a shelter for young adults between the ages of 18-25, who are experiencing homelessness.- roxbury house staffed and supported apartments provides apartment style housing and services designed to promote health, wellness, and…
$6,783,693 spent$6,679,438 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $79,693,026.
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 2021 to 2022, from $148M to $130M (−13%).
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 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 6% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Lesli Suggs
President & CEO
Board chair
Tim Miner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 74 funders to 138 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $3.3M.
33 of 315 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 315 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 HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
54% 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 HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 29% · 2019 23% · 2020 15% · 2021 23% · 2022 20% · 2023 19% — 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
52% of THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS 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
64% of THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS 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. $8.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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 HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 180 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 180 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $215.9M on record — $2.3M federal, $213.6M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
- MA$213.4M
- VT$157k
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 HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC?
- THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 315 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,570,133 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,067,933). 195 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 315 organizations giving $25,570,133 in grants to THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC, 195 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,067,933 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS 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 315 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