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Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc

Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $787,364 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($318,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.9M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$787k
Net assets
$2.3M
12/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc does

Mission

To empower people to reclaim their lives by providing substance abuse education & treatment, recovery support services, mental health counseling, safe shelter, and life skills for a future filled with promise.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Substance abuse prevention/recovery center/homeless shelter and assistance.

    $3,761,057 spent$3,862,469 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,761,057.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets -268 ($-1327528)2018 Revenue 109 ($2.5M) Expenses 103 ($1.9M) Net assets -147 ($-730035)2019 Revenue 102 ($2.3M) Expenses 108 ($2.0M) Net assets -79 ($-393240)2020 Revenue 108 ($2.5M) Expenses 114 ($2.1M) Net assets -4 ($-18723)2021 Revenue 109 ($2.5M) Expenses 107 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($495k)2022 Revenue 136 ($3.1M) Expenses 131 ($2.4M) Net assets 242 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 150 ($3.4M) Expenses 172 ($3.2M) Net assets 294 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 223 ($5.1M) Expenses 233 ($4.3M) Net assets 457 ($2.3M)2025 Revenue 215 ($4.9M) Expenses 265 ($4.9M) Net assets 469 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (215)Expenses (265)Net assets (469)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.9M to $3.6M (+25%).

$296k
$380k
$597k
$1.3M
$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.3M
$2.9M
$3.6M
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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: 2021 9% · 2022 10%. 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.

$445k
’17
$597k
’18
$337k
’19
$375k
’20
$514k
’21
$705k
’22
$257k
’23
$809k
’24
$30k
’25
4.1
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.

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Listed11121212111011138
Joined·+2+1+1+1+0+3+4+0
No longer listed·11121225
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $24k → $243k.

5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

40%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 70% · 2019 42% · 2020 32% · 2021 54% · 2022 85% · 2023 41% — 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

36% of Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

97% of Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

ME
MN
IL
MA

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Organizations like Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 13%Fundraising 2%

Governance

7
board members
100%
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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Merrmimack Valley Support Systems · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc?
Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $787,364 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($318,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $787,364 in grants to Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc?
CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) is the largest funder on record, with $318,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery 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 24 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