Office of Ignatian Spirituality
Legal name: The Jesuit Collaborative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204996463
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Weston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4439211336
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,055,477
- Expenses
- $1,107,924
- Assets
- $721,753
- Liabilities
- $76,620
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CARLOS AEDO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- VERY REV JOSEPH M OKEEFE SJ (CHAIR)
- REV ROBERT M HUSSEY SJ (BOARD MEMBER)
- BR CHRISTOPHER DERBY SJ (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Office of Ignatian Spirituality (OIS) works to promote the ministry of the Spiritual Exercises and create opportunities for people to experience its graces, fostering collaboration among Ignatian institutions and programs to help people deepen their faith through Ignatian spirituality. We train and support those who who feel called to lead others closer to God — forming “co-laborers” to set the world on fire. Collaboration. We foster collaboration among Ignatian institutions and programs, forging partnerships to ensure the success of the mission. About OIS Our Mission Our Staff Ignatian Spirituality Our Partners The Office of Ignatian Spirituality (OIS), a ministry of the Jesuits on the East Coast, works to promote the ministry of the Spiritual Exercises and to create opportunities for people to experience its graces.
What it reported doing in 2024
Building communities & networks the office of ignation spirituality (ois) offers formation opportunities for young adults, such as jesuit connections, fostering communities based on the jesuit tradition that deepens their faith through ignatian spitituality. Additionally, ois provides ignatian formation for spanish-speaking catholics, opportunities for faith sharing, and practical applications of the spiritual exercises.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.6%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 52.8%; rating input score 53
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 55.6% of revenue deployed · 52.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $585K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.