Out Now Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043441348
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Springfield, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4137364610
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $187,661
- Expenses
- $154,428
- Assets
- $169,953
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Higgins (President and Co-Director)
People named in this filing
- Jennifer Higgins (President and Co-Director)
- Holly Richardson (Treasurer and Co-Director)
- Tianna Thomas (Clerk and Staff)
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
Empowerment, leadership development, safe spaces & health education for LGBTQ+ youth
What it reported doing in 2024
3.Queer Youth Leadership and youth community engagement including community organizing, community education and engagement, and consultation by trained LGBT youth - Includes the Art and Social Justice initiative, e.g. Out Now created and curated three community murals over the past three years.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.9%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97
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: 17.7%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.1; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.9% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $150K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.