The Worcester Guardian Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
933161785
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Worcester, MA, USA
Phone
7746966822
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$167,616
Expenses
$96,367
Assets
$81,066
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TIMOTHY M LOEW (PRESIDENT/TREASURER)

People named in this filing

  • CHRISTINA M ANDREOLI (DIRECTOR)
  • GIOVANNI S BLUE (DIRECTOR)
  • MARY BETH BURKE (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

The worcester guardian's mission is to produce accurate, unbiased, in-depth and fact-based journalism. The worcester guardian seeks to inform, educate and empower the public, thereby strengthening democracy. The worcester guardian strives to fill gaps in coverage left by the remaining for-profit media outlets while maintaining a firewall between our news-gathering and fundraising efforts to ensure our journalism is produced without prejudice.

What it reported doing in 2025

The worcester guardian is an independent, free, nonprofit digital news organization. On its website, the publication covers a wide range of topics, including news, sports, business, public safety, and arts and entertainment in the city of worcester.

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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 74
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 57.2%; rating input score 57
  • Program expense ratio: 99.5%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 42.5%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 58.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 90.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 156.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 57.2% of revenue deployed · 99.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $96K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 57/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.