Communitas Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042239964
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Wakefield, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7815872200
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,798,724
- Expenses
- $20,113,365
- Assets
- $15,261,223
- Liabilities
- $8,391,639
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL J COTE JR (CEO/CFO (THRU 12/2024))
- JAMES CAMPBELL (CEO (EFF. 9/2024))
Highest reported compensation
- PAUL J COTE JR (CEO/CFO (THRU 12/2024)): $287,125 total reported compensation
- ROGER PLOURDE (DIRECTOR OF RESIDENTIAL SERVICES): $132,670 total reported compensation
- CHELSEA WOOD (DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES): $127,054 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support, serve, and advocate for people with developmental disabilities and their families to ensure they are valued, respected and have the opportunity to fully participate in their communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Day, employment and transportation services - provides a range of services. This includes assisting individuals to build and maintain their ability to participate in community activities by focusing on skill areas that include communication, self-care, relationship-building and community involvement. We help people explore jobs that interest them, learning the skills needed for the job, and then helping people find and get settled into being a successful employee. We provide transportation services which we have found to be a key support service that makes a difference in helping people to have access to community job opportunities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.9%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 87.8%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $81.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd 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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.3%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.9% of revenue deployed · 87.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $17.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $287K · 12 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.