Comunilife Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133530299
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122191618
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,525,576
- Expenses
- $74,031,669
- Assets
- $81,040,729
- Liabilities
- $53,155,096
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BLANCA RAMIREZ (PRESIDENT & CEO (AS OF 3/18/24))
- DR ROSA M GIL (FORMER PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DR ROSA M GIL (FORMER PRESIDENT & CEO): $385,548 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL O'DONNELL (EXECUTIVE VP & COO): $377,057 total reported compensation
- BEVERLY RAUDALES (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $320,418 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 vulnerable communities with housing & culturally sensitive supportive services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Other program services: suicide prevention activities for at-risk teens. Our life is precious program (2008) provides treatment and adjacent services to teens at risk of suicide who reside in the bronx, brooklyn, queens, and manhattan as well as amsterdam, hempstead, poughkeepsie, and yonkers, New York. 268 teens received services that include academic support, creative arts therapies, music lessons, wellness activities, and concrete family services. The services are designed to reduce the risk factors associated with adolescent suicide. In addition to its core activities, lip also provides civic engagement activities, community education and awareness, and enhanced parent/family engagement services.medical respite services: in 2025, respite served 306 people. Our medical respite program provides short-term transitional housing, housing navigation and care coordination services to multiply-challenged patients leaving hospital care without a viable home in which to recuperate. With contracts from hospitals, managed care companies, and other health related organizations, respite, with an average stay of 53 days, helps break the cycle of shelter-to-hospital-to-shelter that many homeless experience. This results in better health and social outcomes for clients, a reduced shelter population, and financial savings for hospitals.care coordination program (2023): comunilife is the care management agency, partnered with cbc's health home. The program provides care coordination to various community services to eligible individuals in the nyc. The cma program provides care coordination to regular health home, health home plus, and at-risk members. In 2025, the program served over 600 members.engage: funded by the office of mental health, the program provides mental health screenings to individuals in the community who are experiencing a mental health episodes. Each completed screening results in several brief interventions which trained program staff administer to each individual. The individual is connected to outpatient care after the interventions are completed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 88% 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.2%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 91.1%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $144.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 46th 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: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.66; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.2% of revenue deployed · 91.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $67.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $386K · 29 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.1M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 47 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.