Urasenke Boston Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043107717
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6172470298
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,928
- Expenses
- $8,988
- Assets
- $46,929
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID HOWELL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DAVID HOWELL (PRESIDENT)
- GLENN PEREIRA (CHIEF OF ADM)
- MIHO MACHIDA (JAPANESE SEC)
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 japanese tea ceremony group of greater boston in 1956, the urasenke boston chapter was established with the late minoru horiuchi, dmd as its first president. Only three years later, in 1959, kyoto became boston's first sister city, and in a generous gesture of friendship, kyoto donated an authentic kyoto-style japanese townhouse (kyomachiya) to the boston children's museum. Today, the children's museum honors this connection by granting the chado urasenke tankokai boston association (formerly the urasenke boston chapter) special access to the townhouse to give introductory demonstrations for visitors and also hold chado practice sessions. Boston's long history of promoting and protecting japanese traditional arts made it a natural choice for the location of an urasenke chapter. New england's strong tradition of sailing and trade through the 19th century helped to make boston an early center of imported arts and goods from japan. New englanders william sturgis bigelow, edward s. Mor
What it reported doing in 2025
Performed tea demonstrations at museums, colleges, businesses and festivals in new england area. Organized and ran 4 formal tea gatherings for members. Organized and ran a lecture by an invited speaker for members. Performed tea classes on sundays throughout the year for members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.22; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 42.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 78.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.