John F. Murphy Homes
Overview
Mission
We commit to making lives better for children and adults with differing abilities.
What it reported doing in 2024
The margaret murphy centers for children (mmcc) are special purpose private schools that operate under the purview of the Maine department of education. Mmcc provides clinical and educational services to students, aged 18 months to 20 years, with a host of special education needs. These needs include autism, developmental disabilities, emotional disorders and behavioral impairments. Students are placed at mmcc by more than 35 school districts and child development service sites in Maine. Schools refer students to mmcc to access highly specialized services that cannot be otherwise provided by the sending school district. Mmcc provides services identified within the science of applied behavior analysis, and is the largest provider of such services within the state.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010355896
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Website reviewed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Auburn, ME, US
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The website gives limited detail about important organizational relationships and the filing reports few safeguards for setting executive pay.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 50
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.8%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public policy transparency: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public financial transparency: 0 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Impact reporting controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Public relationship transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Public governance controls: 1 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.8%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.26; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 82.8% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $66.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $257K · 21 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 15 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 filed related-organization links