Community Action Partnership for Dutchess County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141611857
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8454525104
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,538,955
- Expenses
- $3,364,894
- Assets
- $1,321,201
- Liabilities
- $333,626
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHARLENE SMART (PRESIDENT)
- JOSH STRATTON (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TERESA PAINO (C.F.O.): $156,359 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH C SPIRA (C.E.O. (FORMER)): $75,829 total reported compensation
- LINDA HAAS MANLEY PHD (C.E.O.): $67,859 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Assist low-income individuals to become more self-sufficient by developing work and social skills.
What it reported doing in 2025
Income resource development - provides various services to residents of dutchess county including the earned income tax credit program, dress for success, suited to succeed, and case management programs. Clients receive services to help them reach their goal of self-sufficiency. This may include free tax preparation and budgeting advice, employment retention, resume creation, and workforce readiness skills training, as well as assistance with workplace attire. Clients are assisted with utilizing, accessing, and increasing their resources to improve their lives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 64% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 91.1%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.9%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.2% of revenue deployed · 91.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $3.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $156K · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $575K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.