Catholic Charities Boston

Legal name: Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
042534041
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Aug 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
South Boston, MA, USA
Phone
6174648500
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$63,979,484
Expenses
$59,190,679
Assets
$66,447,806
Liabilities
$12,809,687

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

Leadership & pay

28 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KELLEY TUTHILL (PRESIDENT/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • KELLEY TUTHILL (PRESIDENT/CEO): $265,393 total reported compensation
  • LEAH SULLIVAN (CFO AND ASSISTANT CLERK): $226,394 total reported compensation
  • JAMIE EWING (SR VP OF PROGRAMS): $217,588 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Catholic Charities Boston provides help and hope to empower individuals and families to develop pathways out of poverty and toward stability, with services open to all regardless of faith or circumstance (including affordable childcare, education, and job training programs). Refugee services are a vital part of our mission to welcome and serve those in need. Refugees come to Catholic Charities Boston from all corners of the world, including Afghanistan, Burma, Bhutan, Cuba, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iraq, Liberia, Somalia, Sudan, and Vietnam. We work closely with the state department and partners including Combined Jewish Philanthropies and the Jewish Community Relations Council to give critical support to refugee families and individuals who have fled war, political upheaval, and persecution in order to establish roots in the U.S. Our Process.

What it reported doing in 2024

Catholic charities' family and youth services integrated system of programs help parents and grandparents meet the challenge of an evolving world, and young adults and children to thrive. Programs include affordable childcare services (both center-based and in family childcare home settings after-school and summer programs, healthy families, parent and elder programs, and post adoption search services. The organization served over 4,000 children youth, elders and families throughout the greater boston area in 2025. All child care programs are licensed by the Massachusetts office of early education and care and are naeyc accredited with over 90% of children enrolled at catholic charities qualifying as income eligible as defined by the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Our teen center (located at st peter's parish in dorchester) provides safe, no-cost, after-school care for over 300 middle and high school students in dorchester's bowdoin-geneva neighborhood. The program and activities aim to increase teens' self-esteem while providing the tools needed for academic and personal success.sunset point camp in hull offers over-night camp each summer for over 400 children ages 6-14 from greater boston and the south shore. Catholic charities specialized parent and family programs are designed to help new and first-time parents build parenting skills in a safe, supportive environment and our elder outreach programs help to ease isolation and offer visitation, companionship and support. Counseling services are also available with treatment provided through our south boston and salem offices, via tele-help services , as well as school-based visits. Services include mental health and substance abuse counseling, child and adolescent counseling, psychiatry, and behavioral health services for patients of all ages and backgrounds.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 67% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 92
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.8%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $28.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 95%; rating input score 95; 47th 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: 7.5%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 79.8% of revenue deployed · 84.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 19 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $50.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $265K · 28 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $778K reported
  • Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 6 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.