Bread and Roses Heritage Committee Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042898483
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lawrence, MA, USA
- Phone
- 9786971753
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fairs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,212
- Expenses
- $36,965
- Assets
- $18,496
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elizabeth Pellerito (Co President)
- Genithia Hogges (Co President)
- Steve Osemwenkhae (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Elizabeth Pellerito (Co President)
- Genithia Hogges (Co President)
- Steve Osemwenkhae (Vice President)
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
To organize the annual Bread and Roses Labor Day Festival that celebrates Lawrence's history and diverse cultures through music, theatre, and dance. To recognize, commemorate, inform, and share the labor history and social justice legacy of Lawrence's 1912 Bread & Roses strike with Lawrence's present-day residents and people worldwide.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Bread & Roses Festival is a free one day open-air celebration that occurs every labor day. The program that makes up the festival has had a continual history of success in integrating music, art, and crafts from all the individual communities that make up the larger community of Lawrence and draws 4,000 to 7,000 visitors. The Bread & Roses festival is dedicated to accessibility for all, providing ASL interpreters and accomodations for the handicapped.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -114.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.