CDS Life Transitions
Legal name: Cds Life Transitions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475672694
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Webster, NY, US
- Phone
- (585) 341-4600
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $47,069,876
- Expenses
- $44,259,981
- Assets
- $36,451,360
- Liabilities
- $8,247,815
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREW SEWNAUTH (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- KATIE WAGNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- RICHARD FERRARI (EXECUTIVE ADVISOR TO THE CEO)
- SANKAR SEWNAUTH (PRESIDENT EMERITUS)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDREW SEWNAUTH (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $502,440 total reported compensation
- SANKAR SEWNAUTH (PRESIDENT EMERITUS): $417,066 total reported compensation
- JUDY CONSADINE (CORPORATE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $381,325 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CDS Life Transitions takes an innovative approach in championing our diverse family of organizations in providing compassionate, holistic, and exceptional support for the people we serve.
What it reported doing in 2024
Prime care coordination, llc provides complete support to over 8,800 individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, identifying and coordinating the appropriate providers and services their members need to live their lives in the most meaningful way.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 96
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.3%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: 6%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 76.3% of revenue deployed · 83.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $36.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $502K · 23 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $125K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 44 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.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.