SpeakOUT Boston
Legal name: Public Education Services Inc Dba SpeakOUT Boston
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042679978
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2021
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Boston, MA, US
- Phone
- 877.223.9390
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,967
- Expenses
- $67,226
- Assets
- $42,952
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ellyn Ruthstrom (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ellyn Ruthstrom (Executive Director)
- Meg Duberek (Board Chair)
- Jenn Guneratne (Board Clerk)
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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
SpeakOUT Boston is a community of speakers and volunteers working to create a world free of bias and prejudice by telling the truths of LGBTQ+ lives.
What it reported doing in 2021
Conducted speaking engagements for LGBTQIA education. Provided speakers for engagements including church, youth, college curriculum, high school health classes, services agencies, and corporate teach-ins.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - 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: 3
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.7%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 3
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.9%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 90.5%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 2.7% of revenue deployed · 3.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.