Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE SALEM MISSION INC
THE SALEM MISSION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,674,686 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($383,250). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What The Salem Mission Inc does
Mission
Lifebridge's mission is to offer men and women the opportunities they need to end their homelessness. We believe that the way to solve this crisis, one person at a time, is to provide housing with supportive services, to encourage personal and income development, and stability in physical and mental health. Helping to transition individuals from homelessness to stable housing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To accomplish such a worthwhile and ambitious mission we offer the following services:emergency shelter beds - lifebridge provides 36 shelter beds for individual men and women who are given a clean, warm, and safe place to sleep. In order to accommodate the increase in demand for services in the winter months, we add an additional 18 beds.housing - it is our belief that permanent housing, combined with supportive services, plays a large role in ending homelessness. Lifebridge is fortunate to own and operate 22 units of single room occupancy housing to those who were once homeless. Tenants receive ongoing case management and have full access to all other programmatic services provided on the campus.community meals program - lifebridge serves more than 250 meals a day to our current clients while also opening its doors to anyone in the community who is hungry. With a full-time kitchen manager and over 350 volunteers, we are able to provide breakfast, lunch and dinner 365 days a year; which is approximately 90,000 nutritious meals every year.nursing - with a full-time nurse on staff, lifebridge is able to provide basic healthcare services to those in need. Our nurse completes over…
$5,721,141 spent$4,202,343 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,721,141.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.2M to $4.1M (+30%).
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: 2017 9% · 2018 10% · 2019 18% · 2020 23% · 2021 38% · 2022 12% · 2023 10% · 2024 19% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of THE SALEM MISSION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% 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.
Board chair
Jay Coburn
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $25k → $358k.
12 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 SALEM MISSION 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 SALEM MISSION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
61% 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 SALEM MISSION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 42% · 2019 60% · 2020 43% · 2021 25% · 2022 20% · 2023 44% — 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
53% of THE SALEM MISSION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
60% of THE SALEM MISSION 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 $665k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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 SALEM MISSION INC has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE SALEM MISSION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.6M on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$2.7M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$856k
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 SALEM MISSION 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Seeds of Hope Housing Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SALEM MISSION 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 SALEM MISSION INC?
- THE SALEM MISSION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,674,686 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($383,250). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE SALEM MISSION INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $1,674,686 in grants to THE SALEM MISSION INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SALEM MISSION INC?
- ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $383,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SALEM MISSION 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 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