Writers Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
832054949
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Brookline, MA, USA
Phone
2023608623
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$858
Expenses
$1,765
Assets
$671
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GINNY LEWIS (PRESIDENT)
  • LISA BATTISTON (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • GINNY LEWIS (PRESIDENT)
  • LISA BATTISTON (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • MAXWELL SVEC (SECRETARY)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Writers incorporated is a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that works to support the creative arts program at boston children's hospital. Our program offers patients and families the opportunity to write, design and publish full-length and complimentary works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Our program facilitators and volunteers build supportive and trust-based relationships during hospital-based writing and storytelling sessions.

What it reported doing in 2024

To offer writing and publishing opportunities at bedside-and in workshop settings-throughout boston children's hospital. We hope to find unique ways to showcase the books that children and caregivers have already created-and to provide novel ways for young authors to share their work with the community at large. We believe that the act of storytelling is a powerful tool for processing and creative self-expression, particularly for those coping with acute or chronic illness. Ongoing writing and publishing opportunities can help help children and families to make their voices heard, to educate others about a diagnosis, and to make sense of challenging circumstances.

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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

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

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -105.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -28.8% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -39.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.