Medical Heritage Library Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 825402158
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $67,111
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Polina Ilieva (President)
People named in this filing
- Polina Ilieva (President)
- Mary Yearl (Secretary)
- Melissa Grafe (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
Support digitizing materials in the history or medicine and allied professions for the purpose of free and open access and create tools that promote engagement with such collections to foster digital scholarship through social media fellowship opportunities online exhibitions meetings and workshops and other types of professional education and to promote collegiality and information sharing among institutions that have history of medicine collections and archives.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grants to medical heritage groups to foster digital scholarship through social media fellowship opportunities online exhibitions meetings and workshops and other types of professional education and to promote collegiality and information sharing among institutions that have history of medicine collections and archives
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 99.2%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 60% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -39.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.7% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $67K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.