Center Information Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161560859
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5852104040
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,520,243
- Expenses
- $2,487,168
- Assets
- $1,327,222
- Liabilities
- $433,995
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEVE VON BERG (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- STEVE VON BERG (PRESIDENT): $154,937 total reported compensation
- JASON MIGLIORATTI (SR. SYSTEMS ADMIN): $116,023 total reported compensation
- MICHELE FARNUNG (TREASURER/SECRETARY): $90,721 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide benefit and support, as well as related administrative services, to members and other charitable organizations serving people with disabilities and other disadvantaged populations in New York state.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provision of management services, such as computing and information services, as well as other related administrative services to its supported organizations, including its members (the arc of monroe county, a chapter of nysarc inc., al sigl center for rehabilitation, inc., rochester rehabilitation center, inc., united cerebral palsy association of the rochester area, inc.) and non-members, who are other charitable organizations serving people with disabilities and other disadvantaged populations. The organization provides information technology services and other planning and advisory services in support of its supported organizations' missions. 28 organizations served in 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.2%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 40%; rating input score 40; 9th 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: 1.3%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.2% of revenue deployed · 85.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $155K · 11 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.