Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042387225
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Marlborough, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5084854912
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,910,791
- Expenses
- $4,442,525
- Assets
- $6,716,423
- Liabilities
- $700,181
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- M CHRIS DUANE (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- M CHRIS DUANE (PRESIDENT & CEO): $178,459 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide guidance social, educational, physical and cultural programming for boys and girls in the greater metrowest, Massachusetts area. The intent of these programs is to enhance development during the growth years of children and to prepare young adults to be responsible productive members of the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Educational, after school, pre-school and outreach programs for boys and girls, as well as recreational activities to enrich the social interaction of youth.
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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.3%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.8%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.51; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.3% of revenue deployed · 83.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $178K · 23 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- 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.
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.