Accord Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222218884
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Belmont, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5852687605
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,163,454
- Expenses
- $7,223,899
- Assets
- $3,411,114
- Liabilities
- $629,039
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CARRIE WHITWOOD (PRESIDENT)
- MINDY SCOTT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LESLEY GOOCH-CHRISTMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- LESLEY GOOCH-CHRISTMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $149,977 total reported compensation
- LYNN LANGWORTHY (HEAD START DIRECTOR): $142,093 total reported compensation
- LORRAINE HARMON (COMPTROLLER): $109,117 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Accord connects people to resources that support stability and growth.
What it reported doing in 2025
See schedule oaccord corporation is a community action agency designated by the nys department of state, a rural preservation company through the nys division of housing and community renewal, an entrepreneurial assistance center through the nys empire state development corporation, and child care resource and referral agency through the nys office of children and family services. Accord provides comprehensive services to victims of domestic violence which includes a 24-hour emergency hotline and secure shelter, preparation of orders of protection, court advocacy, support and educational groups, and service coordination for all community responders, including law enforcement, health, mental health, probation, sexual assault providers, court systems, and elder abuse responders. Housing services included section 8 rental assistance, an eight unit homeless housing facility for transitional housing, rehabilitation and repair programs as well as home ownership and operation of 30 low-income residential units, commercial and community properties. The agency also offers crisis intervention services including food pantries to address critical needs reflective of the county's 16.3% poverty rate. Financial literacy is currently being delivered into all service delivery components with outcomes defined by movement in family well-being from in crisis, to stable, and up to thriving as measured through employment, housing, health care, education, food, budgeting, transportation, child care, and parenting and other self-sufficiency domains. In 2021, accord added the fatherhood connection providing group support to increase fathers' connection to their children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 99% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.8%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.4% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $6.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 11 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $405K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.