Friends of Feeney Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834404706
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- West Hartford, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2035302242
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,826
- Expenses
- $99,838
- Assets
- $68,811
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- ERIC J FEENEY (PRINCIPAL OFFICER)
- MATTHEW HELLER (CHAIRMAN)
- JENN LAMBERT (SECRETARY)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Helping children and families after experiencing unexpected tragedy.
What it reported doing in 2025
Line 31 captures program related expenditures that are not direct family support grants and not the CFF event sponsorship for example vendor payments supplies and other program costs that support the organizations mission of helping children and families after tragedy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 69.7%; rating input score 70
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: 8.3%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64% of revenue deployed · 69.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $70K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.