Think Outside the Vox
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920996835
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Boxborough, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7817600543
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $265,929
- Expenses
- $222,390
- Assets
- $117,947
- Liabilities
- $3,852
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SAMANTHA GOULD KRIVESHKO (PRESIDENT & TREASURER)
- CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON (VICE PRESIDENT & CLERK)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON (VICE PRESIDENT & CLERK): $10,458 total reported compensation
- MARIA HENDRICKS (BOARD MEMBER): $7,300 total reported compensation
- KRISTIN JOHNSON (BOARD MEMBER): $7,200 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Think Outside the Vox collaboratively builds Disability Justice and Disability Joy in the arts and culture sector, elevating disabled creatives through training, educating, consulting, and expanding sustainable employment opportunities. We are grateful to the foundations and organizations that partner with us, support our work and further our mission. PARTNER PROJECTS Barr Foundation Logo (opens in new window) The Lenny Zakim Fund Logo (opens in new window) Haymarket People's Fund Logo Massachusetts Cultural Council Logo (opens in new window) The Boston Foundation logo (opens in new window) Wagner Foundation logo (opens in new window) Boston Cultural Council Logo (opens in new window) National Arts Strategies logo (opens in new window) Community Foundation MetroWest T H (opens in new window) Mass MoCa logo (opens in new window) Silent Rhythms Logo (opens in new window) Get Braille...
What it reported doing in 2025
Consulting with educating arts institutions about accommodations and centering disability culture using anti-ableist lens, with a focus on expanding the breadth and scope of accessible programing, facilitating hiring of disabled and marginalized artists and experts and to support the fine arts, especially theater and dramatic production and to create, develop and promote accessible theatrical events, education, recreational and social service to persons of varying nationalities, socioeconomic backgrounds, abilities, races, genders, religious and sexual orientation equitably.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 62% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.1%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 68.4%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Limited
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.4%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 89.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 83.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 57.1% of revenue deployed · 68.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $152K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $10K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.