Champlain Community Service Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
036015899
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Colchester, VT, USA
Phone
8026550511
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$8,922,365
Expenses
$8,758,144
Assets
$2,976,689
Liabilities
$522,244

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ZOLTAN SACHS (PRESIDENT)
  • PEGGY DAY (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • ELIZABETH SIGHTLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THRU 4/24)
  • BRENT HEWEY (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (4/24 TO 6/24))
  • DELAINA NORTON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR EFF. 6/24)

Highest reported compensation

  • BRENT HEWEY (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (4/24 TO 6/24)): $161,717 total reported compensation
  • KAREN CIECHANOWICZ (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $124,826 total reported compensation
  • ELIZABETH SIGHTLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THRU 4/24): $79,522 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Champlain community services (ccs) provides essential support to people with intellectual disabilities and autism, building a community where everyone participates, and everyone belongs.

What it reported doing in 2024

Champlain community services offers community supports that enhance consumers' access to activities in the local community, promote independence, and enable participation in a broad range of experiences. Through this program, consumers develop independent living skills, establish and enhance friendships, volunteer in the community, pursue recreation and leisure activities, and get healthy through exercise and fitness programs.champlain community services (ccs) supported employment program way2work provides a unique continuum of employment supports: from pre-vocational experiences for current high school students, to school-to-employment supports for graduating or transitioning students, to adult career development supports from first job through retirement. Ccs also offers self-employment supports, helping entrepreneurs with disabilities launch micro-businesses. Bridging at ccs helps high school-aged youth with disabilities step confidently into their adult years by introducing them to meaningful community opportunities, exploring topics connected to healthy adult living and building healthy relationships. I

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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.8%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 90.7%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.8%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.8% of revenue deployed · 90.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $162K · 14 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.8M reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 2/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.