Eliot Noyes Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882856228
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Brookline, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6175015155
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies & Historic Preservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,553
- Expenses
- $9,917
- Assets
- $2,912
- Liabilities
- $3,734
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FREDERICK NOYES (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
- BRUCE GORDON (VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- FREDERICK NOYES (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
- BRUCE GORDON (VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
- MICHAEL BIONDO (SECRETARY & DIRECTOR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary exempt purpose of the organization is promoting the principles and philosophies of architectural design with the further goal of raising funds for the eventual acquisition of the historical eliot noyes house, a residential house in new canaan ct designed by renowned architect eliot noyes. This house was built in the mid 1950s and is now on the register of historic places. The house has previously been used for educational purposes by the architectural schools of harvard and yale, establishing its importance for training and educational purposes. The company intends to pursue the following exempt activities of holding seminars at the house, tours and private showings, lectures, organizational retreats, private receptions, and art installations. Additionally, the company will raise funds necessary to digitize house records and drawings so that the originals may be donated to harvard university where eliot noyes studied. The eliot noyes house represents modern architecture.
What it reported doing in 2024
Lectures and organizational retreats, private receptions and art installations
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94%; rating input score 94
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.28; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 84.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.