The Irish American Partnership Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222801642
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6177232707
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,872,799
- Expenses
- $4,853,300
- Assets
- $15,245,570
- Liabilities
- $167,373
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY SUGRUE (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MARY SUGRUE (PRESIDENT & CEO): $384,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To organize irish america on behalf of it's irish heritage to support education programs, cross-community programs, and job creation programs in ireland and northern ireland, and to provide speaking and interactive forums in the united states for visiting leaders from ireland and northern ireland.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education: support for primary and secondary schools as well as university and education projects in ireland and northern ireland.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 73% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 52
- Accountability: 75
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.9%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $33.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 78.3%; rating input score 78; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.14; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.9% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 15 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $384K · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 29 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.