Hawthorne Foundation Inc.

Legal name: Hawthorne Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
133447893
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Hawthorne, New York, US
Phone
(914) 592-8526
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$37,465,103
Expenses
$37,577,042
Assets
$36,870,973
Liabilities
$29,150,099

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RICHARD BILLSON ESQ (PRESIDENT)
  • JASON PALMER (VICE PRESIDENT & TREASURER)
  • GAIL NACHIMSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • GAIL NACHIMSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $261,110 total reported compensation
  • RIO BERNARD MONTANO (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $231,421 total reported compensation
  • EILEEN BISORDI CHIEF QUALITY (ASSU. & PRGM DEVT OFFICER): $206,660 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

An Applied Behavior Analysis approach to life long quality education, habilitative, vocational and recreational programs for individuals with autism and other intellectual disabilities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Agency respite services - hawthorne foundation inc. Provides respite services to individuals and their families and/or advocates. Respite services provides temporary relief from the demands of care giving to people who are responsible for the primary care and support of a person with a developmental disability, which can help reduce overall family stress. For the period july 01, 2024 to june 30, 2025, hfi billed 6,848 units.family support services (fss) - the fss grant supports the parent education, mobile crisis, and saturday spectacular programs. The parent education program is dedicated to helping families manage their children's challenging behaviors in positive, safe and healthy ways. The mobile crisis program provides a trained behavior analyst on call available 24/7 to provide immediate coordinated assistance to families of individuals with acute behavioral needs. The frequency of home visits for each family is determined by family needs and availability of funding support. The saturday spectacular respite and recreation (ssrr) program provides families with developmentally disabled children that are unable to find respite and recreation activities for their children. Supplemental security income (ssi) - funds received as monthly payments to individuals with a disability who have income and resources below specific financial limits. Supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap) - supplemental funds received to provide food assistance for individuals with disabilities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • 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; 66th 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: -0.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.79; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $33.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $261K · 15 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.3M reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 29/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.