CDS Monarch

Legal name: Cds Monarch Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
161089115
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Webster, NY, US
Phone
(585) 341-4600
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Group Homes

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$58,816,635
Expenses
$56,129,293
Assets
$48,377,335
Liabilities
$13,812,630

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANDREW SEWNAUTH (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
  • RICHARD FERRARI (EXEC ADVISOR TO CEO)
  • SANKAR SEWNAUTH (PRESIDENT EMERITUS; FORMER CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • ANDREW SEWNAUTH (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $502,440 total reported compensation
  • SANKAR SEWNAUTH (PRESIDENT EMERITUS; FORMER CEO): $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

To provide affordable, quality housing and support services to seniors, veterans, and people with developmental disabilities, enabling them to live independently and pursue their dreams.

What it reported doing in 2024

Other program services include family support services, community prevocational services, senior services and clinical services. Our various family support and respite services are designed to help reduce the stress of primary caregivers while improving independence and social skills for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. These services include family groups, community recreation and autism skill building among others. Our community prevocational services help participants to adapt to work routines, acquire appropriate work habits, and adjust to workplace demands. Individuals work with staff to develop and enhance their current skills which will enable them to find job placement in the community, all while receiving on-the-job support during the course of their employment. Senior services provides modern and affordable community-based housing for senior citizens, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, veterans and families. Clinical services provide physical, occupational and speech-language therapies to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who receive services from cds monarch.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

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: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87%; rating input score 87
  • Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 17th 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: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 43rd 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; 77th 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: 4.6%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 87% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $51.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $502K · 20 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $318K reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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.

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.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.