Garfield First Community Development Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 472573965
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2017–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025
Location: Garfield, NJ, USA
Phone: 9733402000
Rating: 96
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue: $145,428
Expenses: $151,440
Assets: $15,866
Liabilities: $0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

ERIN DELANEY (TRUSTEE)
DARLEEN REVEILLE (TRUSTEE)
DENISE INGUI (TRUSTEE)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide assistance to aid in community development, municipal assistance, social services, and educational activities for the benefit of the city of garfield and garfield men, women, families and at risk children.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide career guidance, education and job skills thru training programs and mentoring programs. Provide health education and safety programs

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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: 100
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 30
Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

Operating margin: -4.1%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $151K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.