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The Pettengill House Inc

The Pettengill House Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,151,757 to it, the largest being Newburyport Society for the Relief of Aged Women Inc ($361,850). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.0M
Funders on record
43
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
$496k
29/43 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What The Pettengill House Inc does

Mission

To support and empower children and families by providing education, comprehensive case management and basic needs; and by coordinating community supports that contribute to individual and family stabilization, personal growth and development.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Emergency Assistance Program Direct emergency help includes emergency shelter, utility assistance, transportation, rent & mortgage assistance, basic needs, food vouchers, medical assistance, clothing, and after school programs.

    $130,535 spent$73,557 earned by the program
    4% of program spending
  2. Food Pantry/Saturday Night Meals Programs Provide food and basic needs to indviduals and families in need, homeless and displaced people. 248,548 meals were provided.

    $2,790,818 spent$91,138 earned by the program
    96% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,921,353.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($184k)2018 Revenue 107 ($1.5M) Expenses 93 ($1.5M) Net assets 135 ($248k)2019 Revenue 102 ($1.5M) Expenses 91 ($1.4M) Net assets 158 ($290k)2020 Revenue 117 ($1.7M) Expenses 93 ($1.5M) Net assets 273 ($502k)2021 Revenue 157 ($2.3M) Expenses 127 ($2.0M) Net assets 418 ($770k)2022 Revenue 177 ($2.5M) Expenses 148 ($2.3M) Net assets 536 ($987k)2023 Revenue 227 ($3.3M) Expenses 204 ($3.2M) Net assets 569 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 202 ($2.9M) Expenses 204 ($3.2M) Net assets 403 ($742k)2025 Revenue 210 ($3.0M) Expenses 208 ($3.3M) Net assets 269 ($496k)
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Revenue (210)Expenses (208)Net assets (269)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $826k (−30%).

$214k
$284k
$356k
$647k
$815k
$1.0M
$1.2M
$826k
$530k
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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: 2017 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 8% · 2022 2% · 2023 8% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of The Pettengill House Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$136k
’17
$64k
’18
$42k
’19
$212k
’20
$266k
’21
$217k
’22
$60k
’23
−$304k
’24
−$246k
’25
1.1
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.

Chief executive

Tiffany Nigro

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

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Listed151515161616161716
Joined·+3+1+1+2+2+0+6+2
No longer listed·31022053
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $55k → $638k.

5 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Pettengill House Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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 Pettengill House Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% 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

11%
largest funder
30%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 38% · 2019 25% · 2020 20% · 2021 38% · 2022 14% · 2023 24% — 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

55% of The Pettengill House Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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

87% of The Pettengill House Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
NC

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $431k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Against its field

The Pettengill House Inc has grown faster than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding The Pettengill House Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $180k on record.

State$180k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$180k

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

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 8%Fundraising 3%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Pettengill 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Pettengill House Inc?
The Pettengill House Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,151,757 to it, the largest being Newburyport Society for the Relief of Aged Women Inc ($361,850). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Pettengill House Inc have?
IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $3,151,757 in grants to The Pettengill House Inc, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Pettengill House Inc?
Newburyport Society for the Relief of Aged Women Inc is the largest funder on record, with $361,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Pettengill 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 43 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