Christopher C Murphy Schoalrship Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332226802
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Framingham, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5088755282
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,010
- Expenses
- $2,940
- Assets
- $18,070
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- WALTER GARDNER (Chairman)
- JULIE GRIFFIN (Trustee)
- EDWARD FERREIRA (Trustee)
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
The Scholarship Educational Fund was created for the purpose of providing educational assistance to eligible recipients in order to encourage members and their dependent children to improve their educational background.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide educational assistance to eligible recipients in order to encourage members and their dependents to improve their educational background.
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
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 16
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.9%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 32%; rating input score 32
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 81.6%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.15; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 104.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 113.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.9% of revenue deployed · 32% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $940 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 6/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.