Qnest
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992344593
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lexington, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7818620822
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homes for Children & Adolescents
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,367
- Expenses
- $344
- Assets
- $17,566
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sarela Bliman-Cohen (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Sarela Bliman-Cohen (Executive Director)
- Dganit Cohen (Board Director)
- Eliahu Efrat (Board Director)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Housing and Supporting Homeless LGBTQIA+ Youth
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, QNEST advanced its mission to support LGBTQIA+ minors facing homelessness due to family rejection by launching community-based programming focused on prevention and support. We hosted parent education panels designed to increase understanding, reduce family rejection, and strengthen family relationships. We served 20 individuals through our efforts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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 and program spending has grown recently. 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: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 90
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.8%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: 19.8%; rating input score 20
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: 97.9%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 51.06; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 165.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 167.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.8% of revenue deployed · 19.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $68 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.