Friends of Manchester Trees

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237335905
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Manchester, MA, USA
Phone
5083205671
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$50,398
Expenses
$34,094
Assets
$56,443
Liabilities
$1,533

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jody Morse (President)

People named in this filing

  • Jody Morse (President)
  • Martha Chapman (Secretary)
  • Ashley Ochs (Treasurer)

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

Tree planting and maintenance, and public education.

What it reported doing in 2024

Education Programs: Hosted an expert naturalist speaker event and forestry science film screening; tagged trees for identification; Held Arbor Day event at elementary school.

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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 64.2%; rating input score 64
  • Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95

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: 32.4%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 28.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 64.2% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $32K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.