Believe in Community Charitable Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
931338814
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Scituate, MA, USA
Phone
7813611452
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue
$21,324
Expenses
$12,185
Assets
$35,982

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KIMBERLY PETERS (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • KIMBERLY PETERS (PRESIDENT)
  • THERESE PETERS (TREASURER)
  • JOSEPH NORTON (SECRETARY)

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

(i) to raise money to support residents of scituate, Massachusetts, including but not limited to town employees and/or students who attend scituate public schools and families of students and town employees, who are struggling due to unforeseen circumstances like natural disasters, financial hardship and other emergencies. (ii) to raise money to support programs and events that foster a sense of community in scituate and bring scituate residents together; to raise money to promote public safety to ensure that scituate continues to be a safe, resilient and welcoming place to live where neighbors support each other in times of crisis.

What it reported doing in 2025

To support programs and events that foster a sense of community in scituate and bring scituate residents together; to promote public safety to ensure that scituate continues to be a safe, resilient and welcoming place to live where neighbors support each other in times of crisis.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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.

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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 69
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 46.9%; rating input score 47
  • Program expense ratio: 82.1%; rating input score 82

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 42.9%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.95; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 44.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 46.9% of revenue deployed · 82.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $10K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 47/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.