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VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS

VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,256,072 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,834,468). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$20M
Funders on record
139
Grants received
$10M
Net assets
$30M
82/139 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans does

Mission

The mission of the new england center and home for veterans (nechv) isto equip veterans who are facing or at-risk of homelessness with thetools for economic self-sufficiency and to provide them a path toachieve successful and dignified independent living.a service and care provider for former military service men and women,nechv offers a broad array of programs and services that enablesuccess, reintegration, meaningful employment and independent living.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Transitional housing services represent costs associated with the upkeep of the physical infrastructure of the transitional housing program and over 200 transitional living accommodations which operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The transitional housing program supports more than three quarters of all military veterans in the city of boston who find themselves experiencing homelessness. In fiscal year 2025 and fiscal year 2024, it served approximately 84,000 and 73,000 meals, respectively. Collectively transitional housing services can be defined as "hotel services and include operations, security, maintenance, laundry and food services, which are all essential to ensuring the veterans residing at the center are in a safe, healthy and well maintained environment.

    $4,174,711 spentof which $10,820 as grants$182,847 earned by the program
    24% of program spending
  2. Transitional human services support provide a vast array of behavioral health, case management, housing, employment and training and supportive services to assist veterans in transitioning from homelessness into permanent housing. These programs assist veterans insecuring permanent and stable housing, increasing their income and connection to needed benefits, and in achieving greater self-determination. This includes population specific programming for female veterans, aging veterans, and veterans experiencing acute behavioral health challenges, including substance use disorders.

    $4,108,985 spentof which $405 as grants$71,794 earned by the program
    24% of program spending
  3. Community based stabilization services are the costs associated with assisting veterans and their families in the community to help them successfully maintain independent living. Assistance to veterans includes stabilization and in-home case management, transportation,emergency supplies and emergency housing assistance. These individualized services are provided throughout eastern massachusetts and rhode island and assist over 1,440 veterans per year.

    $8,818,626 spentof which $3,505,844 as grants
    52% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,102,322.

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 ($15M) Expenses 100 ($9.2M) Net assets 100 ($19M)2018 Revenue 74 ($11M) Expenses 105 ($9.7M) Net assets 107 ($20M)2019 Revenue 61 ($9.2M) Expenses 104 ($9.5M) Net assets 105 ($20M)2020 Revenue 76 ($11M) Expenses 113 ($10M) Net assets 110 ($21M)2021 Revenue 96 ($14M) Expenses 130 ($12M) Net assets 122 ($23M)2022 Revenue 80 ($12M) Expenses 123 ($11M) Net assets 125 ($24M)2023 Revenue 115 ($17M) Expenses 152 ($14M) Net assets 142 ($27M)2024 Revenue 130 ($19M) Expenses 179 ($17M) Net assets 158 ($30M)2025 Revenue 131 ($20M) Expenses 211 ($19M) Net assets 160 ($30M)
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Revenue (131)Expenses (211)Net assets (160)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 2022 to 2023, from $30M to $39M (+31%).

$27M
$29M
$29M
$31M
$30M
$30M
$39M
$41M
$42M
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 40% · 2018 57% · 2019 63% · 2020 61% · 2021 64% · 2022 64% · 2023 59% · 2024 63% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 881 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5.7M
’17
$1.4M
’18
−$382k
’19
$874k
’20
$2.4M
’21
$630k
’22
$3.1M
’23
$2.9M
’24
$101k
’25
0.4
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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

C Andrew Mccawley

President & CEO

Board chair

Thomas V Milbury

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed252626232423252728
Joined·+1+5+2+6+2+4+3+1
No longer listed·05553210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 59 funders, grant income rose $563k → $3.1M.

19 of 139 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 VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 139 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

VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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

44% 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 VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS.

18%
largest funder
35%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 31% · 2019 26% · 2020 20% · 2021 21% · 2022 27% · 2023 32% — growing more concentrated.

“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

56% of VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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

83% of VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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

VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS's funding base is broadening — from 34 funders to 59 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 449 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $91.5M on record — $61.7M federal, $29.8M state.

Federal$61.7M
grants $52.1Mcontracts $9.5M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$58.3M
  • Department of Labor$2.3M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
State$29.8M
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Top programs
  • (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$29.2M
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$660k
  • (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$420
  • (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$100

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 VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 5%Fundraising 7%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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 3 related entities

  • Court Street Veterans Housing LLC · partnership
  • Powderhorn Veterans Housing LLC · partnership
  • Court Street Veterans Housing Manager Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS?
VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,256,072 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,834,468). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS have?
IRS filings report 139 organizations giving $10,256,072 in grants to VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS, 82 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,834,468 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS 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 139 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