Back Bay Ringers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201672003
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,717
- Expenses
- $36,718
- Assets
- $170,024
- Liabilities
- $5,600
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephanie LaShoto-Westfield (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Anna Poplawski (Treasurer)
- Emlee Kohler (Secretary)
- Susan Schultz (Operations Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Music cultural & educational arts
What it reported doing in 2025
Our organization excels in providing the community with professional-quality public handbell concerts at affordable prices. Through these concerts we promote musical education and appreciation while fostering a sense of community engagement and cultural enrichment. During this fiscal year we performed 8 such concerts reaching a total of approximately 1500 people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.8%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 68.5%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.63; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $37K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.