Franklin County Senior Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030237571
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- St Albans, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8025246616
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Meals on Wheels
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $164,414
- Expenses
- $86,271
- Assets
- $351,728
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Patricia Ross (Executive Director)
- Charles Tinker (President)
- Jeannine Renaudette (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Patricia Ross (Executive Director): $9,360 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Fcsc is a community-based center available to all senior citizens regardless of income; fulfilling cultural, educational, and nutritional needs, building belonging and connectedness, and helping to maintain healthy lifestyles and aging by offering a comprehensive menu of programs, activities, and special events.
What it reported doing in 2025
The FCSC Health and Wellness initiative provides comprehensive physical support and preventative care for local seniors. Key components include: Diverse Fitness & Mobility: Hosting weekly 'Bone Builders" strength-training, Exercise Class, Tai Chi, Line Dancing, Chair Yoga to improve balance, flexibility and cardiovascular health. Weight & Nutrition management: Offering a Healthy Weight program providing peer support and resources or maintaining healthy lifestyle habits. Preventative Health Services: Coordinating regular Foot Clinics for essential podiatry care and hosting member presentations on health related safety and chronic disease management. These programs empower seniors to maintain physical independence and well-being in a supportive, community-based setting.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 39
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.2%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 50.3%; rating input score 50
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 47.5%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.08; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.2% of revenue deployed · 50.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $9K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.