Easterseals New Jersey
Legal name: Affinity Partners Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851549516
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Jamesburg, NJ, US
- Phone
- 732-257-6662
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,435,758
- Expenses
- $68,786,425
- Assets
- $14,748,937
- Liabilities
- $17,929,439
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN FITZGERALD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- BRIAN FITZGERALD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $587,588 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL G OWEN (CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFI): $368,905 total reported compensation
- ALEISHA HART (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $362,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To ensure everyone — regardless of age or ability — is fully included and empowered.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide guidance, governance, and back office services to its supported organizations so they may increase their capacity to serve individuals in need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: -2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.22; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 85.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 78.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 65% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $68.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $588K · 27 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $109K reported
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 6 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 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.