Christian Counseling Ministries of WNY, Inc.
Legal name: Christian Counseling Ministries Westernnewyork Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161254657
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Clarence, NY, USA
- Phone
- 716.632.3200
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Association
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $613,175
- Expenses
- $621,503
- Assets
- $321,853
- Liabilities
- $18,712
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- YVONNE BANKS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KEN HOUSEKNECHT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- THOM MARRA (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- YVONNE BANKS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $86,906 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Christian Counseling Ministries of WNY, Inc. exists to provide professional counseling that integrates Biblical principles to guide your journey in healing wounds from the past, resolving conflicts in the present, and achieving fullness of life. CCM is a non-denominational not-for-profit ministry which accompanies the work of established local churches. Our licensed counseling framework is in the fields of social work, mental health, and marriage and family services. CCM strives to equip individuals: adult and youth, couples, families, and workplaces to manage societal and family stressors. In addition, we support our community by offering one-time services to meet a situational need or ongo.
What it reported doing in 2025
Professional counseling services within a biblical framework. 4958 sessions provided during 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.9%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 72.9%; rating input score 73
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 73.9% of revenue deployed · 72.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $453K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $87K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.