Central Referral Service Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161242695
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2010
- Forms available
- Form 990 2010
- Location
- Buffalo, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7168821025
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Telecommunications
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $520,344
- Expenses
- $522,425
- Assets
- $303,642
- Liabilities
- $74,669
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To efficiently and effectively disseminate human service information for the benefit of communities and their members.
What it reported doing in 2010
Community service telephone referral system, computerized directory accessed by volunteer telephone operators. Compilation of community service database for on & off site use by governmental and community organizations. Approximately 250,000 web-site hits and 21,000 calls taken.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $353K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $70K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.