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Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474054831
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Newton, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6173409414
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,979
- Expenses
- $29,127
- Assets
- $101,034
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gail Harris (President)
People named in this filing
- Gail Harris (President)
- Laurel J Sgan-Kibel (Treasurer)
- Karen K Gill (Trustee)
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
Scholarships and long term mentoring supports for low income students.
What it reported doing in 2025
Alray scholars foundation
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.9%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 34.3%; rating input score 34
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 59.5%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.47; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.9% of revenue deployed · 34.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.