Community Options New York Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113414724
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Princeton, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6099519900
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Low-Income & Subsidized Rental Housing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $37,271,349
- Expenses
- $35,756,403
- Assets
- $36,310,706
- Liabilities
- $18,839,127
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SVETLANA REPIC-QIRA (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
- FATIMAT ADEKOYA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ZACHARY L PETRIE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TIFFANY BENNETT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- Ashley M Gamba (Executive Director)
- Frankie Matheny (Assistant Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT P STACK (CHAIRMAN): $2,609,137 total reported compensation
- DAVID P SWEENEY (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $929,872 total reported compensation
- SVETLANA REPIC-QIRA (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT): $880,557 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 provide support to families through the development of living, working & recreational options to help facilitate friendships with persons with disabilities & to advocate & organize educational efforts to the general public about societal contributions persons with disabilities can offer to the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Employment services and day habilitation- Provides employment counseling and support services to individuals with disabilities. The purpose is to increase the individual's self-esteem while enabling them to contribute to the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 the filed numbers largely add up. 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: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 87.8%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 4.1%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.4% of revenue deployed · 87.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $31.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.6M · 19 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.5M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 18 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.