Community Assistance Resources & Extended Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203368734
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2124201970
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $211,305,349
- Expenses
- $204,536,573
- Assets
- $215,345,905
- Liabilities
- $28,197,928
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEAH ESTHER LAX (CEO)
- BATSHEVA RUZOHORSKY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LEAH ESTHER LAX (CEO): $345,744 total reported compensation
- BETH STATFELD (CFO): $344,923 total reported compensation
- LAURENCE MILLER (COMPLIANCE OFFICER): $218,360 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 assist children and adults, in aprticular within underserved, multilingual communities with developmental disabilties and/or mental health conditions, and their families to identity, obtain, and maintain resources by: developing and implementing programs to improve their lives and independence, assisting families to supprt their child and complex needs in their own home and community, training community members, students and professionals to provide culturally sensitive care for children and adults with special needs, and conducting ongoing research and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions to enhance program results
What it reported doing in 2024
Develop and implement programs and initiatives to improve the lives and independence of children and adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities, including autism and/or behavioral health conditions, and their families, across the lifespan. To train community members, students and professionals to effectively support individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities including autism and/or behavioral health challenges in a culturally sensitive manner. To assist families to support their child with complex needs in their home and communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most filed governance safeguards are in place. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 58
- Accountability: 81
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 96%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 78.6%; rating input score 79; 0th 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: 99.4%; rating input score 99; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.9% of revenue deployed · 96% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $196.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $346K · 10 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $76.1M reported
- Consistency: 25 of 28 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 22 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 15 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D expense reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.