Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC
THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,392,673 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,735,358). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $10M
What The Michael Lisnow Respite Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of the michael lisnow respite center is to serve and enrich our communities by partnering with families to provide daily, essential, personalized care and support for their loved ones with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organizations services include the following programs: adult day program - for individuals age 22 and older. This program concentrates on teaching the daily living skills that are needed for each individual to reach their highest level of independence. Goals range from activities of daily independent living to learning how to interact in a public place.
$4,037,974 spent$4,029,387 earned by the program100% of program spendingInfant/toddler program for children from birth to three years. During this program, children receive the physical, occupational, and developmental therapies they need combined with water play, crafts and fun. These activities take place around medication, tube feedings, and medical procedures.
24-hour care residential program - facilitated through our four residential homes, this program provides 24-hour residential care in community settings for adults with complex needs, both physical and medically.
The after school respite program is a time when teenage children from the community volunteer their services. Volunteers assist in feeding during the dinner hour. The program provides the greatest community outreach and as a result of these weekly services, the teenage volunteers have formed wonderful relationships with the center's respite children.
Provide temporary care for children and adults with severe disabilities
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,037,974.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $7.4M to $8.4M (+14%).
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: 2018 64% · 2019 62% · 2020 69% · 2021 68% · 2022 59% · 2023 57% · 2024 62% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $667k → $699k.
11 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER 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 MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
93% 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 MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 29% · 2019 52% · 2020 49% · 2021 58% · 2022 40% · 2023 43% — 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
48% of THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
75% of THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.4M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC's revenue grew 45% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC?
- THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,392,673 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,735,358). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $5,392,673 in grants to THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,735,358 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 45 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