Community Services Inc of Ocean County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222070381
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Manahawkin, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6099786869
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Meals on Wheels
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,390,704
- Expenses
- $4,555,960
- Assets
- $2,202,702
- Liabilities
- $467,504
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WYATT EARP (PRESIDENT)
- REV ANNA GILLETTE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JAMES SIGURDSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES SIGURDSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $108,798 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Community services, inc. Of ocean county is a non-profit corporation providing nutritional and social support service programs for the elderly in their communities. These programs and services are provided in an effort to assist older adults in living as independently as possible in the environment of their choice.
What it reported doing in 2025
Congregate nutrition program - each day a different hot lunch is served at various locations. The lunch includes meat, fish or pasta, vegetables, bread, juice fruit or dessert, milk, coffee or tea. All menus are approved by a qualified nutritionist and are planned to provide at least one-third of the recommended dietary reference intake set by the food and nutrition board of the national academies of science, engineering, and medicine. The congregate nutrition program is open to all persons who are 60 years of age or older or the spouse of a person over 60, and is designed to serve seniors in ocean county who do not eat properly for such reasons as: they cannot afford to do so; they lack the skills or facilities to select and prepare well-balanced meals; they have difficulty getting around to shop and cook for themselves; they have such feelings of loneliness and rejection that they have little desire to prepare and eat a nourishing meal alone. Each participant has the opportunity to make a donation toward the cost of the meal. There is no required payment, but a $3.00 voluntary donation per meal is suggested. The method of payment is strictly confidential. All participant donations are put back into the congregate nutrition operating grant to help further the program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 83% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.8%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -3.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.8% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.