Massachusetts Family Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043113783
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Acton, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7815690400
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,002,387
- Expenses
- $950,696
- Assets
- $1,116,183
- Liabilities
- $22,411
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL KING (PRESIDENT)
- ANDREW BECKWITH (PRESIDENT EMERTUS/DIRECTOR (PART-YEAR))
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL KING (PRESIDENT): $150,236 total reported compensation
- SAMUEL WHITING (GENERAL COUNSEL): $114,115 total reported compensation
- KENT SCOTT (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $78,236 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Massachusetts family institute (mfi) is a non-partisan public policy organization dedicated to strengthening families in Massachusetts.(continued on schedule o) mfi engages in research and education of a wide range of public policy issues to strengthen the well-being, health and safety of families.
What it reported doing in 2025
Lobbying and non-partisan issue advocacy and constituency communications on issues concerning the well-being of families in Massachusetts including education, economic growth, health care, taxes, marriage and the preservation of life.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 93
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.5%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 56.3%; rating input score 56
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.8%; rating input score 96; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 5.2%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.5% of revenue deployed · 56.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 24 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $535K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 32 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.