Laboratory Robotics Interest Group- New England Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352261629
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Sudbury, MA, USA
- Phone
- 9784605230
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $136,469
- Expenses
- $135,161
- Assets
- $191,081
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- Rita Vicaire (Executive Chair)
- Timothy Blankenship (Secretary)
- Gregory Wendel (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
The LRIG_mission is to provide and facilitate instruction for both self-development and the benefit of the laboratory automation community, to facilitate communication among users and providers of laboratory automation, to share current best practices and experiences in the design and implementation of laboratory automation, to provide a_platform to encourage an open discussion of any new automation technologies that can be beneficial to the laboratory automation community, to facilitate communication via web content and e-mail_and to evaluate new technologies, instruments and share our findings at regional meetings and with on-line presentation archives.
What it reported doing in 2025
4/3/25 - 4/13/25 - Grants to Whitman-Hanson Regional High School, Greater Lowell Technical High School, Pembroke Community Middle School, Cirl Scouts of Central & Western MAssachusetts
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, and 23% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.1%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 67.4%; rating input score 67
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 120% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.1% of revenue deployed · 67.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.