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Top 25 Shelter and housing nonprofits based in Boston, United States

Name: Shelter and housing nonprofits based in Boston, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026 32 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 32 shelter and housing nonprofits headquartered in Boston, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,232 professional contacts across them, including 912 with verified work emails. Los Angeles is the largest hub.

This list covers shelter and housing nonprofits headquartered in Boston, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 22, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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2,232Contacts tracked

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The 25 largest shelter and housing nonprofits based in Boston, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 32 shelter and housing nonprofits based in Boston, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to shelter and housing nonprofits: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Pine Street INN	Strong evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	501-1,000	474 contacts →
	Strong evidence “With a mission to end homelessness, Pine Street Inn is New England's leading provider of housing, shelter, street outreach and job training to homeless individuals in Greater…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
2	Catholic Charities Boston	Indirect evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	201-500	232 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Our mission is to welcome and serve, with compassion and respect, all those in need by providing life's necessities, education, and advocacy to move families towards…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
3	Victory Programs	Indirect evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	205 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Victory Programs has helped individuals and families in crisis for over 45 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
4	Homestart	Indirect evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	182 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We believe that home is the foundation of a thriving life, and a dignity to which everyone has the right.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
5	Metro Housing Boston	Partial evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	170 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Metro Housing addresses and prevents homelessness in Boston by providing supports and services for families and individuals and helps them move along the pathway from homelessness…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
6	St. Francis House	Indirect evidence	Boston, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	153 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
7	Heading Home	Indirect evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	131 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Heading Home’s mission is to end homelessness in Greater Boston by providing a supported pathway to self-sufficiency that begins with a home, together with critical services such…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
8	Preservation Of Affordable Housing	Strong evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	112 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to preserve, create and sustain affordable, healthy homes that support economic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
9	Familyaid	Partial evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	107 contacts →
	Partial evidence “FamilyAid empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
10	Breaktime	Partial evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	69 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Breaktime is a Boston-based nonprofit working to end young adult homelessness through purposeful transitional employment and financial empowerment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
11	Bridge Over Troubled Waters	Indirect evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	66 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Bridge Over Troubled Waters is Boston's foremost agency providing age-appropriate services for homeless, runaway, and at-risk youth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
12	Project Place	Partial evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	54 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 1967, Project Place assists homeless and low-income individuals transition out of the cycle of poverty and into permanent employment and housing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
13	Hearth, INC	Indirect evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	49 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Hearth is a non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination of homelessness among the elderly.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
14	IBA	Indirect evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	36 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We shall not move from Parcel 19” IBA is a non-profit organization and a dynamic community-building agency that started in the South End neighborhood of Boston, to address…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
15	Habitat For Humanity Greater Boston	Partial evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	31 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston builds strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
16	Commonwealth Land Trust	Partial evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	28 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Commonwealth Land Trust (CLT) provides affordable housing and supportive services in Massachusetts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
17	ONE Family, INC	Indirect evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	22 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “One Family aims to prevent homelessness and break the cycle of family poverty in Massachusetts by promoting pathways to economic independence through advocacy, education, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
18	Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance	Strong evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance's (MHSA) mission is to end homelessness through advocacy, collaboration, education, housing, and the implementation of outcome-based…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
19	Brookview House, INC	Indirect evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	15 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Brookview House, our mission is to empower parents to break the generational cycle of homelessness and poverty with our holistic, family-centered model rooted in community and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
20	Abundant Housing MA	Partial evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1-10	13 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Abundant Housing MA (AHMA) is a non-profit organization, founded in 2020 to advocate for the creation of abundant housing for all and to support a network of grassroots…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
21	Boston Rescue Mission	Indirect evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	12 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Boston Rescue Mission (BRM) is a non-profit organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
22	Empowered And Dedicated To Edify The Nation, INC	Partial evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1-10	12 contacts →
	Partial evidence “EDEN’s mission is to reduce the recurrence of families returning to shelters by offering practical and lasting life changes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
23	Housing Navigator Massachusetts, INC	Indirect evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1-10	9 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a 501c3 connecting people with places to call home.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
24	Sojourner House Boston	Partial evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	7 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 1981, Sojourner House was the first family shelter in Boston to house both male and female parents as well as children of all ages.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
25	Perci PBC	Partial evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1-10	1 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Solving the housing shortage by unlocking community-oriented development” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: shelter and housing nonprofits. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names shelter and housing nonprofits.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of shelter and housing nonprofits, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name shelter and housing nonprofits. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Shelter and housing nonprofits based in Boston, United States at a glance

As of Sep 22, 2026

40.9%Verified-email coverage

69.8Average contacts per company

11-50Median size (employees)

281.2%Largest-city concentration · Los Angeles

Sep 22, 2026Page data refreshed

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Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Boston, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Boston, over 32 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among shelter and housing nonprofits, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in Boston, United States whose own description of what they do matches “shelter and housing nonprofits”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names shelter and housing nonprofits), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among shelter and housing nonprofits, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Boston are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 912 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names shelter and housing nonprofits, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many shelter and housing nonprofits are there based in Boston, United States?

RevenueBase identified 32 shelter and housing nonprofits headquartered in Boston, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Pine Street INN, headquartered in Boston, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most shelter and housing nonprofits?

Los Angeles leads with 90 headquartered companies, followed by New York (82) and Atlanta (66).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 912 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 32 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.

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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.