Care Plus NJ
Legal name: Care Plus Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223561909
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Paramus, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 201-986-5000
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $469,743
- Expenses
- $315,698
- Assets
- $2,085,953
- Liabilities
- $618,586
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIGITTE D JOHNSON (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BRIGITTE D JOHNSON (PRESIDENT/CEO): $299,584 total reported compensation
- ILHAN YILDIRIM (TREASURER): $250,598 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Care Plus NJ provides comprehensive, recovery-focused integrated behavioral health, addiction recovery, and primary care services, including crisis response and wraparound supports to help individuals and families improve health and well-being. Our goal is to prevent out-of-home placement by providing short-term, intensive in-home family education and crisis intervention to families with children at risk of out-of-home placement, or who are being reunified from out-of-home placement. Kinship Navigator Program Our mission is to partner with Kinship Caregivers, offering support that enriches the lives of children in households led by grandparents, relatives, or friends. Care Plus NJ, a distinguished 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and proudly stands as a local Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC). We are dedicated to delivering comprehensive, recovery-focused...
What it reported doing in 2024
Care plus foundation program initiatives:- care plus foundation strives to build a brighter world for the 1 in 4 adults and 1 in 5 children and youth in our community dealing with mental health issues or emotional distress - from depression and anxiety to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder; we accomplish this through direct support with scholarships as well as medication and housing assistance our robust advocacy program works to decrease the stigma for mental health issues with community awareness events and professional conferences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.6%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: Fail
- 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: 32.8%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.61; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 67.6% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $293K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $300K · 7 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 3 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.