The Arc of Chemung - Schuyler
Legal name: Chemung-schuyler Counties Chapter Nysarc Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161120089
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Elmira, NY, US
- Phone
- 607.734.6151 ext. 122
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,086,158
- Expenses
- $33,216,245
- Assets
- $34,180,163
- Liabilities
- $7,239,786
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARGARET LAWRENCE (PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL STAMP (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SALVATORE GAROZZO (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- SALVATORE GAROZZO (CEO): $231,965 total reported compensation
- JULIE BUB (FORMER CFO): $85,303 total reported compensation
- JOHN KENNEDY (FORMER CFO): $36,307 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through community engagement and acceptance, The Arc Chemung-Schuyler creates opportunities for individual growth, productivity, and independence.
What it reported doing in 2024
Day services- providing quality skill development, training, and supervision in daily living activities that help people foster independence, establishing and pursuing personal goals, self-advocacy, social skills, independent transportation, and community involvement that enables people to contribute to the community in a meaningful way. Participants are engaged in a variety of visual arts, music, technology, and physical wellness activities and frequently volunteer with support at local non-profit organizations and human service agencies. Served 71 individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 77% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.4%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 90.4%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $205.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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; 66th 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: 15%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 76.4% of revenue deployed · 90.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $30M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $232K · 15 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $293K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.