Run the Gamut Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992815220
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Boston, MA, USA
Phone
5086157473
Rating
60
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Adult, Continuing Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,709,387
Expenses
$1,516,274
Assets
$9,062,274
Liabilities
$2,644,107

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEFANIE MITCHELL (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • STEFANIE MITCHELL (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $240,385 total reported compensation
  • JENNIFER MAGNUSON (CHIEF OF STAFF): $116,308 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Run the gamut, inc. Empowers motivated young adults on the autism spectrum to successfully transition into adulthood through a hands-on educational curriculum, workplace experiences, and a supportive educational community for its students, fostering independence and enhancing quality of life.

What it reported doing in 2025

During 2025, run the gamut, inc. (the "school") completed the buildout of its educational facility, hired additional staff, admitted its first cohort of students (a total of seven students were admitted for the 25-26 school year) and began providing a regularly scheduled curriculum that focuses on the development or improvement of life, vocational, social engagement, and self-advocacy skills for its students (ages 18-24). Grounded in evidence-based educational practices, including applied behavior analysis (aba) methodologies, executive functioning skills training, and community-based instruction, the school provides its students who have autism with education and training for the purpose of improving or developing capabilities with the goal that its students will lead fulfilling and meaningful lives including employment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 80% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most filed governance safeguards are in place. 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: 25
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 81
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 10.8%; rating input score 11
  • Program expense ratio: 56.9%; rating input score 57
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 13th 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: 80.3%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.98; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 23.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 123.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 161.3% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 176.8% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 10.8% of revenue deployed · 56.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $862K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $240K · 4 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $186K reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 11/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.