Line in the Sky Foundation Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454222459
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Stoneham, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7742429534
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,285
- Expenses
- $55,213
- Assets
- $82,183
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIMOTHY BERNSTEIN (President)
People named in this filing
- TIMOTHY BERNSTEIN (President)
- CHRISTOPHER SHAKER (Clerk)
- ROBERT IRVING (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
Charity
What it reported doing in 2025
Donations to families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 18
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17.1%; rating input score 17
- Program expense ratio: 19%; rating input score 19
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -35.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -28.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 17.1% of revenue deployed · 19% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.