Breathe New Hampshire
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020222170
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Manchester, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6036692411
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Lung Disease
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,560,043
- Expenses
- $716,634
- Assets
- $20,931,571
- Liabilities
- $1,683,071
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARYANNE FERGUSON (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MARYANNE FERGUSON (PRESIDENT & CEO): $142,722 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Breathe New Hampshire's mission is to eliminate lung disease and to improve the quality of life for those living with lung disease in New Hampshire.
What it reported doing in 2024
Advocacy and public policy through public policy work, awareness campaigns and media advocacy activities, breathe New Hampshire works to prevent lung disease and provide a much-needed voice for those impacted by lung disease in New Hampshire. The organization advocates for environments that ensure healthy breathing for all, provides information, resources and skill-based training to volunteers to build capacity as lung health advocates, partners with a broad range of stakeholders to promote and support evidence-based policies and legislation and engages those impacted by lung disease in planning and implementing public health improvement activities.community health through education, advocacy, research and partnerships, breathe New Hampshire involves New Hampshire citizens in matters that affect breathing, and ensure that those living with lung disease have the support and resources that they need. The organization utilizes evidence-based strategies such as community mobilization, policy change, social marketing and capacity-building to advance its critical mission. Breathe New Hampshire promotes policies aimed at protecting the lung health of all citizens, conducts public awareness campaigns to educate the public about factors that affect breathing, supports scientific research though the mary fuller russell research funds, and builds the capacity of healthcare professionals, patients, youth, educators, and others to help prevent, eliminate and treat lung disease.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 79.5%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th 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: 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: 54.1%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 29.21; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.9%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 79.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $570K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $143K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 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.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.