Pear Square Collaborative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862403238
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Dorchester, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6176404297
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Beautification and Aesthetics
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,600
- Expenses
- $51,987
- Assets
- $18,800
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EARL TAYLOR (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- EARL TAYLOR (PRESIDENT)
- DOREEN MILLER (CLERK)
- JOHN J MCCOLGAN (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization has been established to maintain the public art of Edward Everett Square in Dorchester Massachusetts and foster its public enjoyment as a cultural amenity. The organization raises funds to support Edward Everett Square improvements, maintenance, landscaping, beautification and public art projects.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization has initiated a project to transform Dorchester's historic Richardson Park into a "Dorchester Community History Garden". The project aspires to create a work that will instill citizens with a sense of community identity; generate public discourse; and serve the symbolic needs of the public sphere in which the art park will reside. The art park/history garden may include harmoniously positioned features such as sculpture, amphitheater, banners, interpretive signage, etc., in an aesthetically ambient greenspace for public enjoyment and cultural edification.The organization contracted with Sasaki Associates to develop the first step in the overall project, viz. the project's pre-design plan. Sasaki's deliverable establishes an initio conceptual vision and associated budget for the park; identified the make-up of a core stakeholder group capable of guiding he narrative, design, implementation and operation of the history garden; and formulates a preliminary roadmap to implementation, including a project schedule and a clear set of next steps. By way of public art and other features of the community history garden, PSC aims to create for this historic place an ambience of beauty, culture and inspiration. By way of Dorchester community history, PSC aims to create a path to empathy and shared culture and trust across the extraordinary diversity of Boston's largest neighborhood.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -312.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 140.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -35.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.