Honoring Choices Massachusetts Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
462165454
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Lincoln, MA, USA
Phone
7816420454
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Health Support Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,235
Expenses
$25,504
Assets
$16,443
Liabilities
$25,000

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ELLEN DIPAOLA (PRESIDENT/CE)

People named in this filing

  • ELLEN DIPAOLA (PRESIDENT/CE)
  • ELIZABETH COLLINS MD (VICE PRESIDE)
  • DANIEL VESCUSO (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Honoring choices Massachusetts is a consumer focused, nonprofit organization which informs, empowers and helps adults make a health care plan and connect to quality care that honors their choices, all through their lives.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide health care planning inforamtion & ma care planning tools to consumers via the website in order to make a health care plan and connect to care in their community. Our community partners provide one-to-one help and/or engage adults in planing discussions to create a personal plan and connect to person- centered care. Community partners care faith based, cultural groups, and community groups, care and legal professionals, and primary care offices and health care organizations, and hospice care- any group committed to helping adults engage in planning discussions can be part of the partner network. Our alliance partners are health care organizations or statewide membership groups that support their provider members with Massachusetts-based health care planning information, documents and discussion guides. Their support is helping to empower doctors and care providers to initiate planning discussions and match care to an adults values and choices. Working together, our partners meet quarterly in regional networking groups. Partners share expertise and resources to help adults in their community access proactive, quality care to promote every day wellness , and build safer, sustainable care transitions for adults with chronic and serious advancing illness. Regional networking groups are established on the north shore, the south shore, metrowest, and shortly in worcester and greater boston.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 81.3%; rating input score 81

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -57.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.52; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -10.9% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -17.7% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 81.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.