Communities United Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042465684
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Woburn, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6177446076
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,160,708
- Expenses
- $6,025,278
- Assets
- $2,553,880
- Liabilities
- $1,871,794
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY MASTROELLI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MARY MASTROELLI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $117,745 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide early care and education for children (birth to 6 years), including tuition subsidies for low and moderate income families and comprehensive child development services for high risk children.
What it reported doing in 2025
Early education and care - for toddler and preschool aged children. In addition, community outreach and services to support at risk and unserved children and families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 97% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $973.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 2.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.73; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.1% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $118K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.