Boston Rescue Mission Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
042104726
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Boston, MA, USA
Phone
6173389000
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Homeless Shelters

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$10,034,902
Expenses
$3,007,103
Assets
$81,821,293
Liabilities
$502,616

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOHN SAMAAN (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOHN SAMAAN (PRESIDENT): $383,481 total reported compensation
  • ALLISON KINYUA (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $143,476 total reported compensation
  • MICHAEL WAY (EXECUTIVE VP OF PROGRAMS): $136,796 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Since 1899, the boston rescue mission has provided a safe, healing community for people at risk of homelessness and substance use disorders. Brm is committed to transforming and empowering women and men at risk to end their homelessness and to become healthier and more self-sufficient. Every day, homeless women and men find dignity and refuge in our shelter community from the lonely and often violent streets and inclement weather. We provide hearty and healthy meals, a safe place to sleep, bathroom and shower facilities, toiletries, emergency clothing, and care for every person with respect. Staff is diverse in language, ethnicity, culture, age, skills, and knowledge and lived experiences and assist guests with achieving their goals for housing, recovery, physical and mental health and other critical needs. During fiscal year 2025, staff and volunteers prepared and served over 45,000 nutritious meals. Last year, brm's ten bed facility in dorchester provided transitional housing.

What it reported doing in 2024

Community builder incubator program: on december 21, 2004, boston rescue mission created the kingston investment properties trust. This nominee trust was created as a title holding agency. The boston rescue mission administers shared space for services in downtown boston for several Massachusetts community-based organizations, including homelessness, disability advocates, youth and child services. Boston rescue mission's administrative offices are also located in the building. The proximity to each other facilitates programmatic collaboration among several of these organizations and with the boston rescue mission. Brm is also building future programmatic space capacity for its growing programs.

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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 56
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 86
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 44%; rating input score 44
  • Program expense ratio: 82%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 70%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 27.21; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 44% of revenue deployed · 82% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $383K · 8 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.