Chatham Emergency Squad Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237122409
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chatham, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9733771131
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,627
- Expenses
- $106,818
- Assets
- $3,502,193
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICOLE DIMAGGIO (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- NICOLE DIMAGGIO (PRESIDENT)
- DANIJEL FARKAS (FINANCE VP)
- CHRISTINE GROBERT (COMMUNITY EN)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The chatham emergency squad (ces) is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization dedicated primarily to providing professional lifesaving care to the residents of chatham and the surrounding community. Ces is also committed to the health and general well-being of the community by hosting blood drives, providing free cpr training, non- emergency transport and assistance, and stand-by support for local community and sporting events. Ces never charges for its services.
What it reported doing in 2025
The chatham emergency squad (ces) responded to 1,412 emergency dispatches in 2025. 123 calls put the second ambulance, and 7 calls put the third ambulance in service staffed by off-duty members. On 42 separate occasions, ces provided scheduled transport and stand-by protection community events including high school football games, charity walks and large gatherings. Over a two-year period, ces taught cpr to 750 community members including fellow first responders, teachers and coaches thereby broadening its impact on public safety. Ces hosts 4 blood drives every year. Ces is all volunteer and never charges for its services. 91% of the funds needed for operations are provided by community donations thereby relieving patients and taxpayers from financial burden. In 2025, ces completed renovation of its quarters in chatham township and is now renovating and modernizing its facilty in chatham borough.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $62.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -30.9%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 32.79; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 81.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $87K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.