Baltimore Yearly Meeting

Overview

Mission

Together at BYM Friends we Strengthen Local Meetings; Grow in Spirit & Community; and Nurture Youth (Quaker community in the Mid-Atlantic). Homelessness**. Several Friends continue to volunteer in a shelter program that hosts families with children in different area churches. Although we are not able to serve as a host congregation, Friends provide their presence and food from time to time. Our Meeting also testified on behalf of a zoning change to allow the Frederick Rescue Mission to open a shelter for women and children near our Meeting House. The zoning request was approved, and plans are progressing for the shelter to be opened in early 2016. Criminal justice reform**. As an outgrowth of our reading Michelle Alexander’s book _The New Jim Crow_ , we organized a community-wide program to consider these issues further. Several.

Operating model

Revenue model

Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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.

• Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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 some related-organization disclosures are missing.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 77
• Transparency & Controls: 90
• Accountability: 95
• Sustainability: 45
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
• Where the money goes: 83% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
• Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.6M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $132K · 16 people listed
• Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $127K reported
• Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
• Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
• 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
• High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
• High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
• Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
• Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.