Watertown Sons and Daughters of Italy
Legal name: Sons of Italy in America Lodge Piave Fiume 1036
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222510915
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
- Phone
- 617-799-8819
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $37,832
- Expenses
- $61,145
- Assets
- $155,687
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALFONSO VISCOMI (PRESIDENT)
- ROSS ZAGAMI (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARIO PATRIARCA (CHAIR OF TRUSTEES)
- CARMELA LAFAUCI (TRUSTEE)
- LAURENA RICCI (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The lodge is a subordinate body of the grand lodge of Massachusetts of the order of sons and daughters of italy in america, and its purposes are the promotion of italian heritage and fraternalism, support of other charitable organizations with similar purposes, and provision of a scholarship program.
What it reported doing in 2024
Scholarships and charitable organization support
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -61.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.55; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 51.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.