Northeast Storytelling Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
043110860
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Easthampton, MA, USA
Phone
4135419371
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$68,484
Expenses
$77,643
Assets
$68,469
Liabilities
$45

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ChaChanna Simpson (President)
  • Jim Brule (Vice President)
  • Elsa Zuniga (President)
  • Katherine Knutson (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • ChaChanna Simpson (President)
  • Jim Brule (Vice President)
  • Jezrie Marcano-Courtney (Secretary)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide education, advocacy, opportunities, and support to storytellers, story listeners, and story lovers throughout the Northeast.

What it reported doing in 2024

The NEST Outreach Program supported several different storytelling performances in the Northeast and beyond that centered around the theme of Peace. See Schedule O.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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. 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: 48
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 50.2%; rating input score 50
  • Program expense ratio: 44.3%; rating input score 44

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -13.4%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 50.2% of revenue deployed · 44.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $34K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 50/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.