Massachusetts Gastroenterology Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454169854
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Waltham, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7814347313
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,508
- Expenses
- $70,623
- Assets
- $37,800
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAUREN BLEICH (PAST PRESIDENT)
- RICHARD TILSON (PRESIDENT)
- SARAH SHANNAHAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LAUREN BLEICH (PAST PRESIDENT)
- RICHARD TILSON (PRESIDENT)
- SARAH SHANNAHAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
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
To serve as the collective voice of gastroenterologists in the commonwealth of Massachusetts in the effort to ensure access to high-quality, cost-effective gastrointestinal care for our patients; to enhance awareness of regulatory and policy issues affecting digestive health; and to serve as a forum for patient advocacy, grassroots activism, dissemination of scientific knowledge, and professional advancement for gastroneterologists.
What it reported doing in 2025
To serve as a forum for patient advocacy, grassroots activism, dissemination of scientific knowledge, and professional advancement for gastroneterologists.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 77% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.6%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 33; 33rd 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: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.7% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.