Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc
Overview
Mission
Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community services - provides intensive, flexible services designed to provide short-term, home based family services including counseling, parent education, advocacy and respite. Also provides a full range of victim support and positive youth development services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% 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
- 042630450
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Headquarters
- Framingham, MA, USA
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and the filing reports few safeguards for setting executive pay.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.29; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.8% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $51M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $311K · 21 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records