Leading Beyond Boundaries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
331341561
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Somerville, MA, USA
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Science and Technology N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$126,089
Expenses
$122,634
Assets
$16,145
Liabilities
$12,690

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Robert Mahari (President)

People named in this filing

  • Robert Mahari (President)
  • Tobin South (Treasurer)
  • Vivek Sharma (Secretary)

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

Facilitate academic gatherings related to emerging technology technologies to promote practice-oriented research.

What it reported doing in 2025

Planned roundtable sessions during the 2026 World Economic Forum addressing challenges in artificial intelligence governance and society. Topics included Loyal AI Agents Decentralized Agentic AI Personalized Health the Future of Higher Education and a celebration of the MIT alumni associations 150 year anniversary. Invited over 50 leaders from academia industry and policy to contribute. Responsibilities encompassed agenda planning speaker selection research synthesis partner collaboration and venue arrangements. Events occurred in January 2026.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.2%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88

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: 2.7%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.79; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.2% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $107K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.