St. Anthony Shrine
Legal name: Saint Anthony Shrine Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208965928
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 617-542-6440
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,876
- Expenses
- $5,090
- Assets
- $1,110,375
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- FR THOMAS CONWAY (TRUSTEE)
- FR MICHAEL JOHNSON (TRUSTEE)
- FR FRANK SEVOLA (TRUSTEE)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Franciscan Heart of Downtown Boston. The Franciscan friars at St. Anthony Shrine ‘provide a sanctuary for prayer, healing, and outreach’ and ‘extend far beyond our walls’ to serve both the spiritual and corporal needs of the people of Boston. St. Anthony Shrine offers a rich spiritual life through daily and weekend Masses, devotions, and sacraments. Every person who walks through our doors is invited to encounter the love of God through worship, prayer, and reflection. Rooted in the values of the Franciscan tradition, we are a prophetic Catholic community that extends far beyond our walls. Our mission is to serve both the spiritual and corporal needs of the people of Boston. We extend a special welcome to first-time visitors to the Shrine. **View our Mass Schedule here**. Ministries That Change Lives With a variety of ministries that focus on outreach, social justice, and...
What it reported doing in 2024
Grant to support operations of shrine of st. Anthony in boston for the benefit of their friars' care and maintenance of their programs for the poor.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 90
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.6%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 91.6%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 218.15; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 22.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 23/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.