Catholic Charities of Long Island
Overview
Mission
Catholic Charities of Long Island shares the love of Jesus by offering dignified and compassionate care to poor and vulnerable neighbors of every faith and background. As a ministry of the Roman Catholic Church, our work is inspired by the Gospel message that every human life is sacred. Five years later, the agency operated out of five offices and the number of families being served had increased fourfold. Over time, we added sites and employees to provide services for people struggling with alcoholism, residences for people with developmental disabilities, and Regina Residence, the first-ever shelter for single mothers on Long Island. In the mid-1970s, Catholic Charities also developed an innovative program known as Parish Social Ministry (PSM), a unique collaboration with local parishes that brought services and justice to people right in their own neighborhoods. The first three...
What it reported doing in 2025
Senior services - catholic charities aims to ensure that seniors can live independently in comfort and safety while maintaining physical and emotional health. Social activities help seniors remain connected with the community as well. Catholic charities provides case management services which include home care, meals on wheels program, three senior community service centers and four congregate meal sites.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 111843801
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Headquarters
- Hicksville, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5167337000
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $46.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.65; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 86.1% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $37.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $361K · 26 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.8M reported
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 annual filings from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL E SMITH (TRUSTEE/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $360,693 total reported compensation
- PAUL F ENGELHART (SECRETARY/CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $347,502 total reported compensation
- RICHARD BALCOM (TREASURER/CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $319,515 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2025.