Father Bill's & MainSpring
Legal name: Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222538039
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Brockton, MA, US
- Phone
- 508-427-6448
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,258,113
- Expenses
- $44,498,193
- Assets
- $81,146,813
- Liabilities
- $41,240,175
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN YAZWINSKI (CEO & PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN YAZWINSKI (CEO & PRESIDENT): $342,640 total reported compensation
- JILLIAN RUPPLE (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $201,461 total reported compensation
- CATHERINE REILLY (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $173,894 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Everyone deserves a safe and stable place to call home no matter what their situation is.
What it reported doing in 2024
The triage/shelter programs provide emergency shelter relief, daily nutritional meals, case management and extensive social services to homeless families, individuals and teens. The short-term housing programs provide short-term rental assistance and stabilization services to individuals and families moving into permanent housing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 73% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 73% for direct work, and 27% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.8%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $42.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.4%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.82; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.51; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 73.8% of revenue deployed · 85.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $38.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $343K · 23 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $11.8M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 8 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.