Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
042597297
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Framingham, MA, USA
Phone
5085989800
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,716,616
Expenses
$2,239,149
Assets
$8,081,496
Liabilities
$2,054,308

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

35 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WILLIAM YELENAK (PRESIDENT/CEO)
  • MICHAEL WEEKES (FORMER PRESIDENT/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • WILLIAM YELENAK (PRESIDENT/CEO): $268,337 total reported compensation
  • TRACY JORDAN (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & OPERATION): $167,504 total reported compensation
  • MICHAEL WEEKES (FORMER PRESIDENT/CEO): $160,752 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

What it reported doing in 2024

Since 1975, the providers' council has been supporting community-based human services nonprofits. Today it is the largest human services membership association in Massachusetts, representing a sector that accounts for more than 160,000 jobs. The council's members provide care to residents in nearly every city and town in the commonwealth, serving hundreds of thousands of state residents annually. The council supported members by offering education and training opportunities, advocacy initiatives, research, news publications, networking events and group purchasing programs that allowed them to operate more efficiently and effectively. In addition, the council pursued pro-workforce legislation to create a student loan repayment program and ensure livable wages for workers. In consistently striving for its mission to advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact, the council has grown to be widely recognized as the official voice of the Massachusetts community-based nonprofit human services sector. Providing governance is a diverse board of directors representing member organizations; support for the organization comes mainly from members and business partners.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 97% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 61
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 98
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 64%; rating input score 64
  • Program expense ratio: 75.7%; rating input score 76
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 96.9%; rating input score 97; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.6%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.61; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 26.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 64% of revenue deployed · 75.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 31 of 32 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $268K · 35 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.