Cast
Legal name: Community Action of Southold Town Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 112129868
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Southold, NY, US
- Phone
- 631-477-1717
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,640,506
- Expenses
- $3,191,931
- Assets
- $6,854,167
- Liabilities
- $53,544
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARC SOKOL (PRESIDENT)
- PETER S TREIBER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CATHY DEMEROTO JAN-NOV (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ERICA STEINDL NOV-DEC (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CATHY DEMEROTO JAN-NOV (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $136,361 total reported compensation
- ERICA STEINDL NOV-DEC (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $16,212 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide a safety net and promote self-sufficiency for North Fork and Shelter Island residents in need.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization's comprehensive programs address food security, client support, and community education. Food security & nutrition initiatives include client-choice pantries, mobile pantries, a feed-a-kid program, farm partnerships, food rescue, and nutrition education, alongside a health-focused food referral system for patients in need. Client support services offer emergency aid, benefit application assistance, job search support, and seasonal drives, with referrals to ensure holistic care. Education & outreach includes early literacy, tutoring, esl and workforce readiness programs, a culinary training initiative, health fairs, and a workshop series. Additional programs like grupo de madres, a community garden, summer learning, and arts events support personal development for underserved individuals and families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
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; 63rd 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: Fail
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.3%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.15; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 71% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $136K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.