Clifton Adult Opportunity Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222418717
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Clifton, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9737777114
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Sheltered Employment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,991,350
- Expenses
- $3,647,353
- Assets
- $10,085,874
- Liabilities
- $70,702
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAMONA KENNEDY DDS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LINCOLN MILANESE (PRESIDENT)
- GRACE LISBONA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- GRACE LISBONA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $189,000 total reported compensation
- JOANNE NEUMANN (ALL PROGRAMS MANAGER): $189,000 total reported compensation
- CORY BOBER (ASST. ALL PROGRAMS MANAGER): $168,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The clifton adult opportunity center provides assistance to adults with developmental disabilities. Specifically the organizaton is dedicated to a complete around the clock service providing a stress free environment that safely protects the residents and his or her rights while enhancing each individual residents fullest involvement within the community. Individualizing the approach to each person ensures his/her dignity and right of uniqueness.
What it reported doing in 2024
Day program is geared toward developing daily community involvement and workshop skills for adults with developmental disabilities. Social skill training is also practiced each day.the group home program is geared to develop cohabitation and group resident skills and self help training for adults with developmental disabilities. Also each day each individual is motivated to achieve his or her most independent level of all basic life skills.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.8%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th 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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.9%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.77; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.8% of revenue deployed · 79.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $189K · 12 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $1.6M reported
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.