The Friends of the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043569852
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 8578913191
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Botanical, Horticultural, and Landscape Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,106
- Expenses
- $17,020
- Assets
- $364,697
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LIZ MULLARD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DENNIS SULLIVAN (DIRECTOR)
- DEBRA CAVE (DIRECTOR)
- MATTHEW BARISON (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The friends of the east boston greenway, inc. Works to preserve, expand and improve urban open space through community organizing, acquisition, ownership, programming, development and management of special kinds of urban land.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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 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: 19
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14.8%; rating input score 15
- Program expense ratio: 25.3%; rating input score 25
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 64.6%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 21.43; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 61.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 14.8% of revenue deployed · 25.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 15/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.