Compass Family & Community Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 340714662
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Mineral Ridge, OH, USA
- Phone
- 3307439275
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Counseling
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,796,682
- Expenses
- $11,137,789
- Assets
- $10,822,413
- Liabilities
- $3,245,357
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSEPH CARUSO THRU 62725 (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- DAVID STILLWAGONAS OF 62825 (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIN KLEKOT (PSYCHIATRIST): $239,970 total reported compensation
- DANIEL DAWSON (CERTIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONER): $167,180 total reported compensation
- JOSEPH CARUSO THRU 62725 (PRESIDENT & CEO): $145,125 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Compass helps individuals and families build better lives and a stronger community.
What it reported doing in 2024
High street outpatient behavioral health and alcohol and other drug (aod) prevention: provides a titrated system of support and assistance to families and individuals specific to meet client needs. These services include behavioral health assessment, community psychiatric support treatment, case management, crisis response and intervention, pharmacologic management, behavioral health counseling and therapy for individuals with serious psychological and mental disorders, as well as individuals with addictions and co-occurring disorders in order to help them to achieve an optimum quality of life. To reduce the incidence and prevalence of chemical dependency and related problems through public awareness, education, prevention, outreach, and intervention and outpatient activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th 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: Pass
- 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: -3.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.6% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $9.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $240K · 19 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.