Hingham Cares Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 825244135
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Hingham, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7817490009
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Prevention Only
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $114,697
- Expenses
- $121,297
- Assets
- $779
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kristen Arute (Program Director and President)
- Camille Averett (Director and Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Kristen Arute (Program Director and President)
- Stephen Aucella (Director)
- Camille Averett (Director and Vice President)
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
The mission of Hingham CARES is to reduce substance use among youth in our community. We do this through programming in the schools, education through social media and email blasts, speakers for parents, a podcast, on-demand videos and various forms of collaboration among various sectors.
What it reported doing in 2025
We offered programs for parents and caregivers to help them raise resilient children who are capable of making healthy choices around drugs and alcohol by teaching refusal skills and communication skills; we brought speakers into both the middle school and the high school; we created podcast episodes; and we created a video with high school seniors about the consequences of underage drinking that is shown to parents and students at the quarterly Athletic Orientation Nights at the high school; we participated in an online forum; we created and distributed cards for parents and teens to sign before prom; we held youth events for middle schoolers; we created a Let's CHAT! program for community members to prompt important conversations; and we shared information on the risks associated with underage use of drugs and alcohol on our social media pages and on our website and through email distributions.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.9%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 31.1%; rating input score 31
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 56.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.9% of revenue deployed · 31.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.