New England Antiquities Research

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
026019346
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Nashua, NH, USA
Phone
9147156482
Rating
62
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$42,068
Expenses
$37,331
Assets
$718,906
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SYDNEY BLACKWELL (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
  • WALTER VAN ROGGEN (PRESIDENT)
  • MARTIN RAPP (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • TOM ELMORE (DIRECTOR AT LARGE)
  • FRED MARTIN (DIRECTOR AT LARGE)
  • MATT MCLAUGHLIN (DIRECTOR AT LARGE)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The primary tax-exempt purpose of neara is to educate its members and the general public about stone structures and sites throughout the northeast.

What it reported doing in 2025

The neara board met for a 2-day membership retreat to discuss, decide, and implement ways to improve its services to members and to carry out neara's mission statement.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 12
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.7%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.3%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 19.26; rating input score 80; 80th 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 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -16.9% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 19 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $37K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
  • Consistency: 14 of 16 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.