Cornerstone Montgomery

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
520937199
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Rockville, MD, USA
Phone
301-715-3673
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$34,783,649
Expenses
$34,962,526
Assets
$29,974,844
Liabilities
$9,984,482

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

Leadership & pay

33 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CARI GUTHRIE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOY CHANG (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER): $342,617 total reported compensation
  • RAKESH BANSIL (PSYCHIATRIST): $339,846 total reported compensation
  • CARI GUTHRIE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $270,192 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.

What it reported doing in 2024

Community services: vocational programs provide vocational services to the supported employment teams and the employment focus clusters. The range of vocational services provided includes vocational assessment and planning services, supported employment job search and coaching services, work adjustment training, job placement, and employee support services.transition age youth services (tay) are provided under the umbrella of the vocational programs. The career transition program provides a unique combination of mental health, career/vocational and educational resources to assist students and their families in identifying and obtaining necessary resources to assist in a successful transition from school to work or post-secondary academic environments. The career academic psychiatric-rehabilitation services program provides a combination of supported education and supported employment services to young adults aged 18-25 post high school to assist them in achieving their employment and academic goals. This program provides a range of services including vocational assessment, supported employment job search and coaching, assistance with college registration, and linkage to community resources.day programs (foundations) provides outpatient rehabilitation training, seminars, and social/recreational activities to assist people in developing independent living skills and community integration skills. Any person in any of the psychiatric rehabilitation programs is eligible to participate in the day programs. Most skill development and recovery activities are provided in a group setting and consumers have significant input into classes and activities.supported living programs provide counseling and independent living skills training to people living in their own homes in the community. The program is organized to assist people to live as independently as possible through counseling, skill development, and other support and assistance on a drop in" basis. This program also provides evidence-based practices in dbt, itcod, and imr.montgomery county case management is a county-funded program to support people living in their own homes by providing linkage case management to a variety of community supports and applications to federal and local entitlements.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 89% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.2%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.5%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 11 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 79.2% of revenue deployed · 78.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $27.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $343K · 33 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $433K reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.