Sustainable Marblehead
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824681147
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Marblehead, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7816390815
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,948
- Expenses
- $54,229
- Assets
- $59,311
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elaine Leahy (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Kurt James (Board Chair and Director)
- Laura Kurzrok (Board Vice Chair and Director)
- Eileen Mathieu (Board Vice Chair, Director, and Co-Chair of Clean Energy and Public Policy Working Group)
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
We are a community organization working to educate and engage the Marblehead community to reduce waste and pollution and achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040. Our vision is a vibrant and engaged community actively addressing the climate crisis to ensure our town and planet are habitable and safe for future generations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Clean Energy and Public Policy - Collaborated with Town's Sustainability Coordinator. Sustainable Living - Hold specific events to promote objective: 3 events held with 64 attendees. Green Homes and Buildings - Educate community about clean energy: issued monthly newsletter to 1,600 recipients. Harbor - Raise awareness of public access to water; and plan for sea level rise. Town Trees and Forestry - Worked with Tree Warden; planted 20 trees; held educational forums with 255 attendees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 1
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.6%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 1
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 73.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.6% of revenue deployed · 0.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $403 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.