Career Closet Westchester (Formerly the Welfare to Work Foundation)
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 137079094
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Scarborough, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9142202790
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,607
- Expenses
- $31,300
- Assets
- $124,443
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- LESLIE ALLEN (EXECUTIVE DI)
- THEODORE V BUERGER (TREASURER)
- CATHY DREILINGER (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Career closet westchester provides interview-appropriate clothing in a welcoming volunteer-assisted environment for women seeking to move to paid employment and financial independence.
What it reported doing in 2024
Under its "career closet" program, career closet westchester collects (and sometimes purchases) interview-appropriate clothing and distributes this clothing by appointment only to individuals who are out of work and seeking employment. All recipients are referred to career closet westchester primarily by government-funded programs (including the westchester county department of social services' "welfare to work" programs).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 56% for direct work, and 44% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.8%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.2%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.98; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.