Cornwall Central Teachers' Association
Legal name: American Federation of Teachers Cornwall Central Teachers Assocation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 146084484
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Cornwall, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8457212266
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $237,205
- Expenses
- $235,724
- Assets
- $123,408
- Liabilities
- $121,927
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN HINES (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN HINES (PRESIDENT): $8,500 total reported compensation
- STEPHEN CERBINO (TREASURER): $4,000 total reported compensation
- JOY GREENSTEIN (1ST VP): $2,750 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Cornwall Central Teachers' Association was organized to promote the interests of public education and advance the standards of the teaching profession. It represents teacher interests in negotiations with the Cornwall School District’s Administrators and Board of Education, encourages teacher participation in resolving school-related problems, provides a channel for grievance procedures, and urges members to uphold professional ethics while discouraging discrimination in all its forms.
What it reported doing in 2024
Officer and reresentative stipends
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 76% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 9
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.6%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.99; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 99.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 16 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $236K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $8K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.