Beacon Hill Friends House Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042240610
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6172279118
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $897,126
- Expenses
- $576,272
- Assets
- $2,415,562
- Liabilities
- $104,372
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFF EDENBERG (PRESIDENT/ CLERK)
- JENNIFER NEWMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER NEWMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $53,376 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to embody the quaker principles of faith, simplicity, integrity, community, and social responsibility in order to nurture and call forth the light in all of us. Beacon hill friends house fulfills its mission by: providing a center where friends and others meet, worship, and learn; advancing and fostering the principles of the religious society of friends; offering opportunities for leadership development, personal deepening, and collective action; and maintaining a diverse, intentional, residential community guided by friends principles.
What it reported doing in 2024
The agency is a center for quaker educational activities, the home of beacon hill friends meeting, and a residential intentional community inspired by quaker principles. The agency serves its mission by providing residencies, worship in the quaker tradition, hospitality, and quaker education to cultivate community, nurture spiritual deepening, and empower quaker social action. The agency considers these activities to be its sole program. Residencies - the agency provides residencies for up to 20 adults with an education in quaker values and cooperative living. Meals and household chores are shared, and bi-monthly (twice per month) house meetings operate via quaker decision-making processes. The agency strives to create a diverse and inclusive space for people of all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations, races, and cultural experiences. Some residents are members of the board of directors. Beacon hill friends meeting - the agency hosts beacon hill friends meeting, an inclusive quaker congregation. Hospitality - the agency provides space for mission-aligned community organizations to meet, worship, cultivate community, and learn. The agency also provides 1 - 2 short-term guest rooms which allow guests simple accommodations in our intentional community. Quaker education - the agency provides lectures, workshops, discussions, concerts and other events that embody the quaker principles of faith, simplicity, integrity, community, and social responsibility.
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 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.8%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.39 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.8%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.19; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.8% of revenue deployed · 75.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $433K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $53K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.