Hattie B. Cooper Community Center
Legal name: Hattie B Cooper Community Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042173420
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- (617) 445-1813
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,703,789
- Expenses
- $2,125,444
- Assets
- $7,443,825
- Liabilities
- $466,542
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KYLE WALDEN (PRESIDENT)
- REV LOUREY SAVICK (PRESIDENT (THRU 10/24))
- LILLIE SEARCY (CEO/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- LILLIE SEARCY (CEO/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $223,771 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
For over 100 years, the Hattie B. Cooper Community Center has worked to strengthen children, families, and communities in the Greater Boston Area through high-quality early learning, family support, and collaborative partnerships that promote opportunity, inclusion, and lifelong success. Today, the Hattie B. Cooper Community Center continues to serve Roxbury and the Greater Boston Area through early childhood education, family support, youth programming, and community partnerships. While the organization has evolved significantly since its founding in 1916, its core mission remains rooted in strengthening children, families, and community through accessible, neighborhood-based services. The Center’s history reflects more than a century of adapting to the changing needs of Boston residents while remaining deeply connected to the community it was founded to serve. Hattie B. Cooper...
What it reported doing in 2024
Our infant/toddlers program which serves children ages from birth to 2.9 years, was run smoothly. Teacher implemented a curriculum for the older toddlers to get them ready for pre-k next year. We served approximately 25 children throughout the fiscal year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 96% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $909.88 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 21.4%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.5; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.5%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 73.3% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $224K · 9 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $353K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.