Brian S McCarthy Memorial Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
834628691
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Nashua, NH, USA
Phone
6033215291
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$141,443
Expenses
$6,445
Assets
$423,028

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kimberly McCarthy (President)
  • Robert G Shaw Jr (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Kimberly McCarthy (President)
  • Richard A Dowd (Director)
  • Michael Tabacsko (Treasurer)

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

Scholarships for Nashua North and/or Nashua South students in the STEM field

What it reported doing in 2025

STEMDay 25 EventRaise Awareness of Foundation to like foundations and organizations

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 95% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 54
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 83
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 26.9%; rating input score 27
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 95.4%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 65.64; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 38.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 36.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 26.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $38K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.