Operation ABLE of Greater Boston
Legal name: Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042761871
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- (617) 542-4180
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Vocational Counseling
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,771,299
- Expenses
- $6,606,115
- Assets
- $1,274,219
- Liabilities
- $541,848
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARIAN WALSH (PRESIDENT/CEO (TO 7/19/2024))
- MICHAEL SWEENEY (PRESIDENT/CEO (AS OF 7/24/2024))
Highest reported compensation
- MARIAN WALSH (PRESIDENT/CEO (TO 7/19/2024)): $230,720 total reported compensation
- MARK GYURINA (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $144,666 total reported compensation
- PAUL PRESTON (CONTROLLER): $137,845 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide employment and training services to people with disabilities and other barriers to employment, helping them achieve economic self-sufficiency and independence.
What it reported doing in 2024
Classroom training: skills2work: a twelve-week office administration, computer skills and customer service training program that prepares students for re-entry to the workforce.able beginnings: a six-week introduction to computer and internet navigation skills program designed to enable job seekers to apply on-line for jobs, type resumes and cover letters and learn to prepare for interviews.medical & healthcare office training: a twelve-week instructional program plus six-week internship in medical office registration, administration, computer skills and customer service.incumbent workforce training: this program provides computer skills training to employees of companies of area companies. Services focus on ms office applications and are provided on a fee-for-service basis.able job resource center: the center provides short-term refresher courses covering microsoft office in a classroom environment. Job search skills instruction are also offered to program participants on a group and individual basis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 92% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $109.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th 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: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 2.4%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $231K · 21 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.