Worcester Roots Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050566468
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Worcester, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5083430035
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Pollution Abatement and Control Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $193,260
- Expenses
- $169,434
- Assets
- $80,917
- Liabilities
- $4,623
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICIA FERAUD-KING (PRESIDENT)
- Thidi Tshiguvho (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- PATRICIA FERAUD-KING (PRESIDENT)
- KIM MCCOY (TREASURER)
- MATTHEW FEINSTEIN (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Working with communities facing economic or environmental injustice, training and empowering youth, supporting development of related urban worker cooperatives. We re-established youth programming.
What it reported doing in 2025
Worcester Community Energy Action (WCEA), DBA RENEW Worcester, is a grassroots cooperatively run not-for-profit energy democracy organization promoting democratic control of the energy system in Worcester. RENEW works to develop projects that prioritize community benefits over shareholder profits, connecting residents to affordable and accessible renewable energy as an important intervention in the intersecting crises around climate, housing, and racial justice and the shaping of a just and sustainable future.
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 available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.6%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
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: 12.3%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.6% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $136K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.