Spark Hope Scar Revision Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923028523
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Natick, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7815145558
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specifically Named Diseases
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,727
- Expenses
- $10,142
- Assets
- $28,823
- Liabilities
- $9,643
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Katherine Leavey (President/Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Katherine Leavey (President/Executive Director)
- Dr Richard Rox Anderson (Director/ Chief Advisor)
- Dr Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson (Director/ Chief Advisor)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Spark Hope Scar Revision Project connects people struggling with self-injury or scars from interpersonal violence to free scar revision and a fresh start. By linking mental health treatment with scar revision treatment, we restore hope. Despair and stigma are replaced with self-efficacy and a belief that healing is possible. We foster an environment in which individuals believe they can move forward in life with healthy coping mechanisms and renewed confidence.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization implemented a multi-channel outreach campaign targeting scar revision medical providers and licensed mental health therapists to identify and enroll eligible participants in the organization's free scar revision treatment program. Outreach activities included direct mailings to medical and mental health professionals, targeted social media engagement, and attendance and speaking engagements at medical scar revision and mental health conferences. As a result of these efforts, the organization provided free scar revision treatment services to 6 program participants during the tax year. This outreach infrastructure is designed to sustain and grow participant enrollment in future program years.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 86.9%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 62.1%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.84; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 52.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 53.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33% of revenue deployed · 86.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.