Family Service Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 160743189
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Corning, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6079623148
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,634,985
- Expenses
- $2,599,555
- Assets
- $2,029,296
- Liabilities
- $355,605
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lauri Andrukat (Board President)
- Cynthia Gee (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Cynthia Gee (Executive Director): $105,719 total reported compensation
- Beverly Massa (Chief Financial Officer): $78,622 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provides professional counseling and community services that empower individuals and families to deal more effectively with their challenges, enhancing the quality of their lives.
What it reported doing in 2024
General Counseling Program: Provides professional counseling tailored to individual, child, and family needs throughout Steuben County.Youth Mentoring of the Southern Tier: One-on-one site-based mentoring programs for children at-risk in four locations in Steuben and Chemung Counties, providing educational/cultural activities, life-skills, community service projects, career-based activities, and a caring, nurturing mentor.LEAPS After School Program: A free after-school licensed childcare program at the Campbell-Savona Elementary School, where fun activities, tutoring, and healthy snacks are provided.Advantage After School Program: A licensed childcare program at the Corning-Painted Post Middle School, where fun activities, tutoring, and healthy snacks are provided.Youth Services Program: A substance use prevention counseling and education program provided at schools and after-school/summer programs in Steuben County.Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Program: Provides skill building to youth who have a diagnosed mental or behavioral health disorder.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 68% 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: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 88
- 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: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.3% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $106K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.