Chaplains on the Way
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273349459
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Waltham, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7816521339
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $150,307
- Expenses
- $135,460
- Assets
- $69,128
- Liabilities
- $237
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LOUISE RACHIN (President)
- ALAN CANTOR (CO-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL JONES (Executive Dir.)
- LOUISE RACHIN (President)
- ALAN CANTOR (CO-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
Chaplains on the way (cotw)believes that no person living in homelessness should feel they have to walk alone, we live out our mission by building trusting relations with people in waltham, ma who are experiencing homelessnessand struggling with mental health and/or substance use issues. We offera ministry of compassion and companionship through life's struggles andtriumphs, welcoming all into relationship and loving community.in working toward our vision, we expand the circle of care for those weserve by providing a bridge to social services agencies. We also act asa bridge with faith communities and schools to educate and raiseawareness by providing opportunities to become involved and experienceour chaplaincy. This work inspires us to advocate for systemic changeon the issues of homelessness, mental health, and substance use.
What it reported doing in 2025
We continue to offer spiritual companionship to peopleexperiencing homelessness in waltham, wherever they mayneed to be. In addition to a ministry of presence, weoffer one-to-one spiritual direction; hold weekly interfaith spiritualpractices; and provide a breakfast program serving hot meals five days a week from november through april and three days a week from may through october.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.3%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 59.2%; rating input score 59
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.3% of revenue deployed · 59.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.