Action for Older Persons Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237060657
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Endicott, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6077221251
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Senior Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $983,983
- Expenses
- $927,855
- Assets
- $767,812
- Liabilities
- $277,300
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ann McNichols (Fmr. President)
- Lucia Esposito (President)
- Megan McClure (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jessie Stone He (Executive Dir.): $73,295 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Action for Older Persons provides unbiased information, personalized guidance, and client-centered advocacy to improve the quality of life of older adults and their families.
What it reported doing in 2024
Action for Older Persons programs primarily address the needs of older adults. Programs include: Health Insurance Information Assistance and Counseling Program (HIICAP) provides Medicare counseling, educational seminars, and advocacy with insurance providers.Long-term Care Ombudsman Program (LTCOP) provides assistance to individuals residing in nursing homes, assisted living, and adult homes by serving as advocates and providing educational resources.Independent Consumer Advocacy Network (ICAN) provides advocacy and support to Medicaid and Medicare dual-eligible individuals who require long-term care or behavioral health services.Enhanced and Augmented Multi-Disciplinary Teams (E-MDT & A-MDT) coordinates professionals across multiple disciplines to identify, investigate, and intervene in cases of elder abuse and other forms of abuse.Facilitated Enrollment for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled Program (FE-ABD) provides enrollment services for public health insurance options, including all Medicaid programs and the Medicare Savings Program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 84% 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.5%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.7%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.5% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $820K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $73K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.