Hearts and Noses Hospital Clown Troupe Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043521436
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Needham, MA, USA
- Phone
- 8772569612
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $102,700
- Expenses
- $110,244
- Assets
- $158,503
- Liabilities
- $4,360
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cheryl Lekousi (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Cheryl Lekousi (Executive Director)
- Catherine BlandBrooks (Director)
- Kenny Raskin (Artistic Director)
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
The clown troupe helps to entertain children with severe illness in local area hospitals and homes. The clowns help to ease the burden of the children? s illness by bringing smiles to their faces.
What it reported doing in 2024
The clown troupe is established in order to help sick children in local area hospitals and homes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: -7.3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $205K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.