Social Venture Partners Boston Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
454230249
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Boston, MA, USA
Phone
6174750930
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$265,235
Expenses
$229,490
Assets
$66,902
Liabilities
$33,010

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KARIN CASSEL MITTERANDO (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • KARIN CASSEL MITTERANDO (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $202,613 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Svp boston, a group of diverse, highly skilled professionals, collaborates with carefully selected boston area non-profits by investing their time, skills, and money to increase the capacity of these non-profits to deliver meaningful social impact. In its combination of funding and volunteering, svp boston provides a unique, targeted, and highly leveraged philanthropic funding source to the boston area non-profit community, while also enabling its grant recipients to access strategic-level volunteers, advice, contacts, and organizational practices.in addition to providing funding and volunteer expertise to carefully selected boston area nonprofits, svp boston also seeks to develop effective philanthropy in the boston area by educating its partners to be informed, effective, life-long philanthropists. As such, svp boston is a catalyst for charitable giving and for making charitable gifts more effectively in the boston area.

What it reported doing in 2025

Grantmaking: historically, svp boston provided grants to select non-profit clients for general operating support who successfully completed engagement work on their mission plan with svp boston. However, availability and release of grants is dependent on whether excess funds are available. Due to svp boston financial circumstances, no grants were issued in 2024 and 2025. At the end of 2025, in order to provide a more stable source of funds for grant making as part of its engagement services, svp boston created and raised funds for the community investment fund, a restricted fund that will disburse grants beginning in 2026 to select non-profit clients based on satisfactory acheivement of engagement work with svp boston. Nonprofit capacity building: svp boston supports capacity building for its non-profit clients by providing skilled volunteers and when finances allow cash grants. Each svp boston engagement with a non-profit client is organized around an mission plan that is submitted in an application process. Svp boston helps nonprofits be as effective as possible in delivering their programs and services by helping to build their organizational capacity. Svp boston defines organizational capacity building as the development of core skills, management practices, strategies, and systems to enhance an organization's effectiveness, sustainability, and ability to fulfill its mission.philanthropy development: svp boston provides workshops, seminars, and experiential learning opportunities for its partners in order to (1) increase their use of strategic giving strategies; (2) increase engagement in their communities; and (3) increase their amount of giving. Learning areas include grant making, volunteering, sectoral issues and the nonprofit sector.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 61.4%; rating input score 61
  • Program expense ratio: 71%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: $46.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 13.5%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.7% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 61.4% of revenue deployed · 71% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $163K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $203K · 9 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $203K reported
  • Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.