Chandler Gilbert Arc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
860446774
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Chandler, AZ, USA
Phone
4808929422
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,256,376
Expenses
$7,245,571
Assets
$3,635,201
Liabilities
$943,931

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JON MEYERS (PRESIDENT)
  • KISHIA BROCK (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • WILLIAM PARKER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • WILLIAM PARKER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $114,453 total reported compensation
  • PAMELA HUNT-WAUGH (CL MANAGER): $106,452 total reported compensation
  • JENNIFER ADERINTO (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $97,028 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Chandler/gilbert arc's mission is to facilitate growth for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through choice, experience, guidance and respect.

What it reported doing in 2024

Employment/vocational services program provides training in skill development, job exploration, job training and job placement, this program develops each individual's skills and independence so they may work successfully in the community.chandler gilbert arc's employment program continued partnerships with long horn stake house, albertsons, fry's, safeway, crayola experience and avec amore to provide community employment (esa or ise) to six individuals; group employment program (gse) also continued its lawn and janitorial services. Chandler/gilbert arc's gse program was able to partner with chandler regional hospital and gilbert mercy hospital as a partner for their recycling services. These partnerships led to community employment for an additional fifteen individuals served in the program.chandler gilbert arc employment program (esa - employments service aide or ise - individual supported employment )has approximately 13% of its members working out in the community with support, once a week for an hour from a job coach. The employment program ( gse - group supportive employment) has approximately 25% of its members working in the community with job coach support throughout the individuals work shift. The total percentage of individuals engaged in community employment is approximately 38%.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 92% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.5%; rating input score 87
  • Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • 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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 87.5% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $114K · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.