South Shore Peer Recovery Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473331053
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Scituate, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7813780453
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Rehabilitative Medical Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $872,322
- Expenses
- $820,870
- Assets
- $652,605
- Liabilities
- $232,750
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Lauren Payne (Chairperson)
- Annmarie Galvin (Clerk)
- Ronald H Orleans (Treasurer)
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
Creating a safe space in the heart of the community where people with lived experience join together to build skills, provide support and find hope in recovery
What it reported doing in 2024
SSPR has grown to serve the recovery community in a variety of ways including individual and family support groups, individual peer support, volunteer engagement, social activities, education and advocacy. Last year, SSPR successfully opened a second Peer Recovery Center, the Wey of Life PRC, in Wweymouth, expanding its reach and impact across the region. Annual recovery support group attendance has surpassed 15000 with more than 650 unique individuals and family members served last year. South Shore Peer Recovery supports all pathways to recovery, providing support through mutual aid recovery groups, established 12 step fellowships, spirituality groups, meditation, acupuncture, pro-social activities and more. In addition to group support settings, South Shore Peer Recovery provides individualized 1 on 1 support for individuals in and seeking recovery and their family members through utilizing Recovery Wellness Planning and regularly scheduled engagement sessions in order to build recovery capital. SSPR is unique in its additional focus on family members of individuals with substance use disorder.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 66% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.9%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 72.9%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 24th 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: 5.9%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.9% of revenue deployed · 72.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $598K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.