Adelante of Suffolk County

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
112554522
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2021
Forms available
Form 990 2021, Form 990-T 2020
Location
Old Bethpage, NY, USA
Phone
5168701600
Rating
62
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$980,354
Expenses
$989,050
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROBERT S BUDD (CEO)
  • DR CHRISTOPHER D LONG (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • ROBERT S BUDD (CEO): $484,188 total reported compensation
  • DR CHRISTOPHER D LONG (PRESIDENT): $464,135 total reported compensation
  • SUSAN DICKINSON (CFO): $325,546 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide service to the community in areas of health, education, employment, supported housing, leadership development, volunteerism, and culture.

What it reported doing in 2021

Form 990, part iii, line 4d, other program services: other program services - adelante addresses a pressing and immediate need for intervention on behalf of tenants to prevent homelessness and to assist those who are homeless. Assistance is provided in finding affordable housing, advocacy, and dispute resolution in landlord-tenant matters, assisting wih money management, and household budgeting. Adelante also addresses the needs of tenants by referring them to programs such as heap, section 8, social services and public housing. Adelante offers educational career counseling programs which provide assistance with transitional employment and offers hands-on computer training to those who are unemployed. Expenses $85,543. Including grants of $0. Revenue $0.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 88% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 32
  • Sustainability: 12
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.3%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: Limited
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.9%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 25.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95.3% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $936K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $484K · 12 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2021
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.