Fort George Community Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133099325
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2129272210
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,422,909
- Expenses
- $7,401,183
- Assets
- $5,197,937
- Liabilities
- $4,861,840
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carolyn Wiggins (Exec. Dir / CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Carolyn Wiggins (Exec. Dir / CEO): $168,627 total reported compensation
- Anita Grossbard (EHS Dir./COO): $149,042 total reported compensation
- Rose De La Cruz (CFO): $130,547 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 a quality, comprehensive, family focused child development program to eligible children and their families in Washington heights and morrisania section in the bronx.to maintain high standards of developmentally appropriate early childhood education and to empower families to enhance their sense of self esteem and effectiveness by providing opportunities for shared decision making.
What it reported doing in 2024
Northern Manhattan II _ Early Head Start & Head Start (NM II): This program combines the strengths of Early Head Start and Head Start programs, located at 1525 Saint Nicholas Avenue & 601 West 186 St. in Washington Heights Community in New York, the program is composed of one hundred sixty seven slots (167): 85 Head Start children in center base classrooms; 40 Early Head Start in a center base classrooms, 24 infants and toddlers in a Home Base Program and 18 in providers` homes. Northern Manhattan II program serves Washington Heights, West Harlem and Hamilton Heights communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 96% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.3%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: 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: 0.3%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.94; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.3% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $6.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $169K · 9 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $143K reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 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: 3 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.