Epilogos Charities Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141981891
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Nashua, NH, USA
- Phone
- 8023806341
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $225,021
- Expenses
- $232,658
- Assets
- $291,363
- Liabilities
- $3,400
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- IGNATIUS MACLELLAN (PRESIDENT)
- EDWARD WARREN (PRESIDENT UN)
Highest reported compensation
- BROOKE FINNELL (US EXEC. DIR): $16,360 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary mission of epilogos charities is to engage in community development by partnering with the people of san jos villanueva, el salvador. Epilogos works in solidarity with the local community to improve the quality of life in many areas, including housing, education, health, employment, sanitation, and other programs. Epilogos is a nonprofit organization supported entirely by donations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education university scholarships: this year epilogos supported 5 university students studying different professional degrees. All the students come from families with a limited income, and all have faced hardship, but they are motivated to learn and improve their lives and to help support their families. Basic and secondary education scholarships: education remains a fundamental pillar of epilogos' mission. By providing an adequate education, students can secure jobs that allow them to support themselves and their families. In 2025, epilogos supported a total of 75 elementary students from kindergarten to 9th grade, and 68 high school students. Each student received sports shoes and uniforms, school uniform, books, sports day payment, food and tuition payment. The scholarship program seeks to benefit families and students with limited economic resources with a desire for self-improvement, academic excellence and a spirit of humanitarian service. Our scholarship program is made up of students and parents who become active members of their community by volunteering to join the programs that epilogos has in the village of san jose villanueva. For instance, helping to build decent houses for low-income families, and supporting the improvement and identity of the community by participating in the maintenance of the mural that highlights the values of the community. There is a commitment from the parents to provide support and to follow up on the education of their students who have received scholarships from epilogos. Parents of these students feel responsibility and commitment as a family, and they follow up to ensure their children appreciate values and present excellent academic results. They are convinced that the only way to change their child's future, and the social and economic environment, is through education. Special education scholarships: epilogos continues to support students with special needs. 19 students from kindergarten to 9th grade received scholarships; each student received sports uniforms, books and sports shoes and the payment of 100% of their monthly fees. Our program seeks to support families with limited economic resources and families who need a helping hand as they hope for change for the family and an opportunity for the students. This is the first opportunity for many of the students to attend school and they receive personalized attention to develop their skills, improve their quality of life, and become as independent as possible. Special education teacher salary support: epilogos supports the salaries of 2 special education teachers at the complejo educativo catolico, one teacher taught classes in the morning, and the second teacher in the afternoon. There are limited resources for funding education, so the schools seek help from outside institutions and foundations to support their needs. Special education teachers play a very important role in the education and guidance of students with special abilities. The students and their parents receive adequate attention and educational support from teachers who specialize in working with students with special needs. Donation of tables and chairs for special education: the students in the special education classroom received furniture that will allow them to work in a more optimal way. They did not have adequate desks and chairs and thanks to the donation the 19 students now have a good working environment. Adoption of 6 school classrooms: six classrooms were adopted in 3 schools in the village: san juan buena vista school center, amaquilco school center, la lima school center. Teachers provide a list of materials the students need in the classroom (books, learning games, stationery, art materials, etc.), donors provide the funding and the specific materials requested are delivered for the students. The donation benefits schools, the teachers and students who attend classes, because they have limited resources and do not have what is necessary in each cl
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 75.8%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 91.9%; rating input score 92; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.4%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.5% of revenue deployed · 75.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $176K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $16K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.