Writing Through
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472750347
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Chilmark, MA, USA
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,179
- Expenses
- $58,126
- Assets
- $58,475
- Liabilities
- $18,548
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Susan R Guiney (Executive Director Board Member)
People named in this filing
- Susan R Guiney (Executive Director Board Member)
- Kristen Schuster (Deputy Director)
- Bryony Rice (Operations Coordinator)
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 Corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for any and all charitable or educational purposes that may qualify it as an organization described in section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended from time to time the Code and exempt it from federal income tax under section 501a of the Code or the corresponding provision of any future federal income tax law. The Corporation shall accomplish such purposes by: a improving the lives of financially emotionally and or physically at risk children young adults and their families b providing educational opportunities for financially emotionally and or physically at risk children young adults and their families; c providing schools and educational shelters with supplementary educational workshops to be included within their existing curricula; and d engaging in any other activities that are appropriate and proper under section 501c3 of the Code.
What it reported doing in 2025
After several years of pandemic related global closures 2025 was a year of growth and progress for Writing Through. We continued to work with our existing Partners while adding new ones in Cambodia the US Vietnam Mexico and Africa. Revised governmental regulations in Singapore have forced us to temporarily postpone our work there while we investigate how we can once again bring our programming back to those Singaporeans in need. But while that has been difficult we had the great pleasure of reinvigorating our work in Vietnam with a new Partner eager to expand the collaboration which has already borne fruit. Writing Through also began new partnerships in Massachusetts with a center for aging and in Arizona working with High School students on the Navajo reservation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39.6%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.