Community Navigators Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
113814213
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2016
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Kensington, CT, USA
Phone
8607707078
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Autism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$68,150
Expenses
$53,379
Assets
$22,315
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Larissa Podermanski (President/Ceo)

People named in this filing

  • Kathy Bobenski (Secretary)
  • Linda Rammler (Board Chair)
  • Larissa Podermanski (President/Ceo)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Community Navigators Inc (CNI) is a non-profit (501c3) driven to help individuals with disabilities develop creative opportunities & programs in their own communities.Community Navigators works hand-in-hand with individuals to help develop Customized work opportunities, Creative housing arrangements, Innovative solutions to daily life situations, Genuine Community inclusion and Life Coaching models. CNI is also a vendor for the Department of Developmental Services and provides services in employment support, individual day supports, transitions supports, individual home supports, personal supports and transportation.

What it reported doing in 2016

Community Navigators throughout the year of 2016 strived to meet our mission to help include people with disabilities to be included within their local communities. Community Navigators assisted 1 student of transition age to learn community safety skills, life skills and the development of a visual Individual Plan. Community Navigators Travel Navigators helped 15 individuals gain respite relief from their parents, while learning life skills and accessing their local communities, and to explore distant places like Walt Disney World. Providing transportation for 10 individuals in an handicap accessible van.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 81% 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.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.3%; rating input score 78
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 21.7%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

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

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $53K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.