Fort Hudson Foundation Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223368083
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Fort Edward, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5187472811
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health - General and Rehabilitative N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,965
- Expenses
- $11,764
- Assets
- $58,748
- Liabilities
- $885
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PETER YOUNG (PRESIDENT)
- SARAH WRIGHT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ANDREW CRUIKSHANK (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDREW CRUIKSHANK (CEO): $540,262 total reported compensation
- JOHN COBURN (CFO): $294,251 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To assist and sponsor programs which address the social, health and welfare needs of persons and to develop and expand community involvement and participation in these fields by mobilizing and coordinating the efforts of community leaders, including those with expertise in such fields as finance, corporate management, trusts, insurance, real estate and law; providing a focal point and recipient for philanthropic support stimulating such sources of revenue as bequests and devices, charitable remainder trusts, unit trusts and pooled income funds, and providing for the effective management thereof.
What it reported doing in 2025
To solicit, collect, receive, hold, invest, reinvest, distribute and disburse donations, subscriptions, gifts, bequests, grants and other funds for the purpose of this corporation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 16
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 11
- Fundraising efficiency: $166.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 74.4%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.99; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1,475.6%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -45.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -37% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 4% of revenue deployed · 10.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $540K · 13 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 5 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: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.