Western New England University
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2024
Graduate and professional - the university offers a wide range of graduate programs and first professional opportunities in arts and sciences, business, engineering, law , pharmacy and health sciences, which includes a doctor of occupational therapy program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 54% for direct work, and 46% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042108376
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Headquarters
- Springfield, MA, USA
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Universities
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.1%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 89.5%; rating input score 89; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.8%; rating input score 96; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.23; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.1% of revenue deployed · 89% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 24 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $180.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $784K · 34 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 40 of 42 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 12 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records