Found in Translation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453302596
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dorchester, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6172846529
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,100,224
- Expenses
- $1,050,838
- Assets
- $893,970
- Liabilities
- $67,213
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Maria Vertkin (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Karen Walker (Program Director): $118,170 total reported compensation
- Kelly Lynch (Deputy Director): $113,597 total reported compensation
- Maria Vertkin (Executive Director): $57,827 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help homeless and low-income multilingual women to achieve economic security through the use of their language skills and to reduce ethnic, racial, and linguistic disparities in health care by unleashing bilingual talent into the workforce.
What it reported doing in 2024
Accepted 14 low-income bilingual women into a 16-week medical interpreter certificate job training program, and provided ongoing career advancement services to 165 members of our alumnae community. Services include interpreter education (medical terminology, ethics, interpreting skills, language coaching), financial literacy, mentoring, childcare, transportation assistance, job placement and career coaching.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.1%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 58.7%; rating input score 59
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 4.5%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.1% of revenue deployed · 58.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $617K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $118K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.