Classis of New Brunswick Community DevelopmentCorp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452053473
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Highland Park, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 7322497349
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $413,190
- Expenses
- $353,174
- Assets
- $251,132
- Liabilities
- $3,779
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carrie Dirks Amadeo (Executive Director)
- Melissa Quaal (President)
- Tracy Cangiano (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Carrie Dirks Amadeo (Executive Director): $14,851 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Creating community development and social justice projects within our greater church community.
What it reported doing in 2025
DEPORTATION & IMMIGRATION RESPONSE EQUIPO (D.I.R.E.) SUPPORT SERVICES (including D.I.R.E. Legal) provides supportive volunteer community and connection services for immigrants and their families who are affected by family separation due to deportation enforcement activity. Detention and deportation throws otherwise stable families with a mixed legal statuses into precarious legal, economic, health, and mental health situations. Arrest, detention, and deportation have devastating effects on children in particular. DIRE Legal Services provides very low cost legal services for immigration cases, focusing on Unaccompanied Minors referred by Accompany Now, a program of the Reformed Church of Highland Park Affordable Housing Corporation, as well as asylum seekers in general. Accompany Now provides post-release services to juveniles who have crossed the US border without, or been separated from, a parent or guardian. 234 court cases/ applications.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 80% for direct work, and 20% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 21.8%; rating input score 22; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 14.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $321K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $15K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 22/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.