Cayuga Centers
Legal name: Cayuga Home for Children
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 150532087
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Auburn, NY, US
- Phone
- (800) 421-2031
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Group Homes
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $120,293,535
- Expenses
- $145,045,063
- Assets
- $67,257,787
- Liabilities
- $74,865,925
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
50 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EDWARD MYERS HAYES (PREVIOUS PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- EDWARD MYERS HAYES (PREVIOUS PRESIDENT & CEO): $756,557 total reported compensation
- TROY BRATHWAITE (HIGHEST COMPENSATED EMPLOY): $557,257 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH PALIN (PREVIOUS CFO): $530,123 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help children and families, whatever their circumstances.
What it reported doing in 2023
Home and community-based treatment and support interventions consist of home and community-based therapeutic interventions designed to prevent the need for counties to remove children and place them in out-of-home care. Hcbts core programs are as follows: the family resiliency programs are family strengthening programs with a successful track record of helping families remain intact. These programs offer a variety of home-based and supportive programs in cayuga and ontario counties under contract with the county department of social services. Programs offered under the family resiliency umbrella include family support, family preservation, safecare, diversion case management, and restorative case management.the functional family therapy (fft) program offers home-based family therapy services to families with at-risk children 11-18 years of age. It is a three phase, outcome driven, prevention/intervention model for youth who have demonstrated the entire range of maladaptive acting out behavior and/or related syndromes. This program operates in cayuga, albany, ontario, monroe, oneida, and oswego county under contracts with the county's department of social services. Services are also provided in monroe county for youth discharged from state facilities under a contract with the office of children and family services ("ocfs"). As cited by the united states surgeon general and in other studies, this is an evidence-based program. The multisystemic therapy (mst) program assists youth at imminent risk of out of home placement to stay with their families. By closely examining the situation from all angles, the therapist then helps to support and strengthen those with the most direct influence on the youth (family, peers, school, etc.) with the goal of helping the youth to change his or her problem behaviors. This program is operating in cayuga, ontario, monroe, oneida, and onondaga county under contracts with each county's department of social services. Services are also provided in oneida county for youth discharged from state facilities under a contract with the ocfs. As cited by the united states surgeon general and in other studies, this is an evidencebased program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 65% 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
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: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,120.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.11; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 84.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $121.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $757K · 50 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $10.4M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 30 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.