Belonging to Each Other Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813692267
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Falmouth, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5084446360
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $540,904
- Expenses
- $469,846
- Assets
- $1,454,429
- Liabilities
- $98,009
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- GINA TORIELLI (EXECUTIVE DI): $67,608 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Belonging to each other, inc. Provides loving support and guidance to our falmouth mass neighbors as they transition to stable housing. This includes temporary cold-weather housing and year-round housing stabilization services, and nutritional support of emergency shelters in falmouth for people living outdoors during extreme winter weather.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our residential program provided 2181 nights of free, warm housing to 32 individuals in the six coldest- weather months. Residents are provided with transportation, access to internet, phone and computers, and connection to food, health care and other needed services while they addressed their unique issues in getting and keeping affordable, stable housing. Residents and other falmouth-connected people experiencing homelessness are provided with free re-housing services using volunteers and professional staff knowledgable about local services and housing operations for individuals with low income and/or special needs. These services are available year-round. Bteo also supports the in from the streets program in falmouth as it provides a motel-based safety-net in falmouth during freezing weather. Individuals in falmouth obtained 2671 nights of emergency shelter; 7413 meals were prepared and delivered by bteo volunteers and staff. Bteo program staff helped the local emergency services network find and place eligible falmouth people, some of whom later moved into our residential program and on to stable housing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 72.9%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th 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: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.1; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 35.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 53.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64% of revenue deployed · 72.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $343K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $68K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.