The Boston Printmakers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042870046
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Cambridge, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7815453570
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,225
- Expenses
- $15,691
- Assets
- $214,715
- Liabilities
- $206
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBORAH CORNELL (CO-PRESIDENT)
- CHARLES NORRIS (CO-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SHARON HAYES (DIRECTOR)
- MARC COTE (DIRECTOR)
- MALGORZATA ZURAKOWSKA (DIRECTOR)
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
Promote the understanding of printmaking
What it reported doing in 2025
Promote the understanding and appreciation of contemporary printmaking through public exhibitions across the united states and to promote education outreach through seminars
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 37
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.4%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 42.9%; rating input score 43
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 46.3%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.68; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.9% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.4% of revenue deployed · 42.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.