Community Action Initiative Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
991526904
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Bronx, NY, USA
Phone
7189080069
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$224,874
Expenses
$113,255
Assets
$111,619
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Arshdeep Garcha (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Rosemary Vassallo (Clinical Director): $12,400 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Community Action Initiative Inc. is a nonprofit behavioral health organization dedicated to promoting mental wellness emotional resilience and community support through counseling psychotherapy youth diversion services alternative-to-incarceration programs parenting education and supportive behavioral health services for underserved individuals and families throughout New York.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community Action Initiative Inc. continued operating its Wellness Program which provides community-based behavioral health and psychotherapy services to individuals and families throughout New York State. During the current year the organization served over 11,000 clients through both telehealth and in-office counseling services. The program focused on improving mental wellness emotional stability trauma recovery family functioning and access to supportive therapeutic care for underserved populations including uninsured individuals and communities facing barriers to accessing behavioral health treatment. The organization collaborated with numerous community and institutional partners to expand access to psychotherapy and supportive behavioral health services including NYC Administration for Childrens Services NYC Public Schools NYS Parole Probation Jacobi Medical Center Montefiore Medical Center Northwell Hospital The Childrens Village Samaritan Daytop Village St. Dominics Family Services The Bronx Defenders Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and CAMBA Shelter System as well as Family Court and Criminal Court referral sources throughout New York State. Through these collaborations the organization supported children adults justice-involved individuals uninsured populations students and families experiencing mental health social emotional behavioral and socioeconomic challenges across diverse communities statewide

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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. 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: 61
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 50.1%; rating input score 50
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 49.6%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.9%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 50.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $113K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $12K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.