The Play Brigade Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472246042
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Brookline, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7817637529
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,934
- Expenses
- $35,411
- Assets
- $221,072
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAWN S OATES (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
People named in this filing
- DAWN S OATES (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
- JUSTIN E OATES (TREASURER AND CFO)
- DAVID JENSEN (CLERK)
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 brigade of volunteers, corporation and community leaders dedicated to creating opportunities for inclusive play, recreation, and sports where everyone participates and belongs regardless of age or ability. We also advocate for disability equity and inclusion in healthcare and education. Not for profit, but for the common good. Our mission goes beyond just giving a wheelchair a curb cut. It gives a communinty a life. The play brigade believes that inclusion, the idea that everyone participates and everyone belongs, is the corenerstone of community. As such, the work we do is inclusive rather than "specialized, and we raise the bar beyond ada compliant. We create awareness of inclusion as a social problem, illustrating how individuals and entire communities benefit when every person has the opportunity to participate and belong. So we empower.
What it reported doing in 2024
Public awareness and education - accomplishments included: providing continued social media content to raise awareness of the importance of inclusion and its impact on individuals and communities. Providing consulting services to boston business leaders to demonstrate how inclusion-minded planning can increase customer engagement satisfaction and business revenue. Continuing to develop a searchable database of fun, recreational and sports opportunities the boston area, with a "play grade" on features relevant to those in the disabilities world.providing support for the first full-scale effort to make art carts accessible to individuals with mobility impairments at the annual burning man festival.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 91
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.2%; rating input score 15
- Program expense ratio: 65.8%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 76.8%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.24; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 15.2% of revenue deployed · 65.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.