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The Boston House

EIN 04-2627411Health Massachusetts Small

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Hope and Healing for Children with Cancer

The Boston House: Hope and Healing for Children with Cancer opened its doors in Brookline in 1979 as the Boston Ronald McDonald House, establishing itself as the eighth House in the country. The Boston House, which changed its name but not its mission in 2017, is a home-away-from-home for families of children ages birth through 21 being treated for cancer at Boston Children's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Jimmy Fund Clinic and other area hospitals. Families live with us while their children are inpatients, undergoing surgery, chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants. They also stay while the children receive outpatient treatment such as radiation therapy and many types of chemotherapy.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

93.65Overall score
out of 100

91.02Financial score
out of 100

100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$930,033

Total expenses · USD$1,005,233

Program expenses

$823,285.83 recorded amount

81.9%

Fundraising expenses

$76,397.71 recorded amount

7.6%

Administrative expenses

$104,544.23 recorded amount

10.4%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.09 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Margaret Enright
Recorded compensation: $114,628.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 11.40%

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All 23 original fields for The Boston House
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	Health
`description` Mission & description	The Boston House: Hope and Healing for Children with Cancer opened its doors in Brookline in 1979 as the Boston Ronald McDonald House, establishing itself as the eighth House in the country. The Boston House, which changed its name but not its mission in 2017, is a home-away-from-home for families of children ages birth through 21 being treated for cancer at Boston Children's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Jimmy Fund Clinic and other area hospitals. Families live with us while their children are inpatients, undergoing surgery, chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants. They also stay while the children receive outpatient treatment such as radiation therapy and many types of chemotherapy.
`ein` EIN	04-2627411
`tot_exp` Total expenses	1005233.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.10400000000000001
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.09
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.076
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.8190000000000001
`fscore` Financial score	91.02
`leader` Recorded leader	Margaret Enright
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	114628.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.114
`motto` Tagline	Hope and Healing for Children with Cancer
`name` Charity name	The Boston House
`tot_rev` Total revenue	930033.0
`score` Overall score	93.65
`state` State code	MA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Patient and Family Support
`size` Source size label	small
`program_exp` Program expenses	823285.827
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	76397.708
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	104544.232

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 04-2627411
Source category: Health
Source subcategory: Patient and Family Support
Recorded location: Massachusetts (MA)
Expense-based size: Small
Under $3.5M in total expenses · source label: small

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.