Core Career

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
873001143
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Phone
7033100500
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,283,853
Expenses
$1,630,022
Assets
$554,514
Liabilities
$1,792,228

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JONATHAN LUCUS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • ANGELA HARTLEY (SECRETARY): $459,756 total reported compensation
  • JONATHAN LUCUS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $261,207 total reported compensation
  • MARIANNE HAEGELI (DIRECTOR, LEARNING & LEADE): $180,573 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Through its talent management and job placement services, nsite serves as the premier resource connecting skilled individuals who are blind, low vision, or visually impaired with forward-thinking employers, including nonprofit agencies associated with national industries for the blind, working together to significantly reduce unemployment within this untapped workforce.

What it reported doing in 2024

Nsite is a talent management enterprise designed to support employers and job seekers who are blind, visually impaired, and/or veterans through the career lifecycle. Nsite offers a continuum of employment services, from identifying candidates for open positions and ensuring they have the skills for success, to job placement services and accessibility support. During fiscal year 2025, nsite placed 38 individuals in jobs, saw more than 1,500 job applications and inquiries submitted though its job board, and had 646 participants complete professional development training programs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 9
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98.7%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 77.8%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 19th 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: -27%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.23; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 37.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 56.1% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 98.7% of revenue deployed · 77.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $460K · 9 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.