South Boston Neighborhood House Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042104807
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- South Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6172681619
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,686,166
- Expenses
- $3,463,670
- Assets
- $3,567,104
- Liabilities
- $509,264
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN BENEDIX (PRESIDENT)
- JUDY GUNNING (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KATHLEEN LAFFERTY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KATHLEEN LAFFERTY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $127,983 total reported compensation
- KAREN MCPHERSON (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $123,998 total reported compensation
- CHERYL ITRI (DIR. OF EARLY EDUCATION & CARE/FAMILY ENGAGEMENT): $116,263 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support family and neighborhood life in south boston.
What it reported doing in 2024
Family engagement - a vitally important strategy of our sbnh family engagement program is to support and engage families over time supporting the parent's role as their child's first teacher and providing resources and supports over years, not just short term. Parents need to feel accepted, supported, nurtured, and listened to in order to enable them to do the same for their children. Two key learnings include the importance of meeting the needs that parent themselves identify and working to bring programming directly to the places where our families live. Family engagement activities are designed to provide parents with opportunities and abilities to positively impact the growth, development and education of their children ultimately creating a healthy community and children.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.7% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $2.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $128K · 23 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $117K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.