Heritage Human Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264692822
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7184444340
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,341,364
- Expenses
- $9,850,503
- Assets
- $9,398,669
- Liabilities
- $3,682,624
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRANCIS NGADI (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- FRANCIS NGADI (CEO): $397,099 total reported compensation
- evette ngadi (COO): $322,818 total reported compensation
- MARY YANG (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $150,617 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of heritage human services is to advocate and provide direct services with and for individuals with developmental disabilities, and their families especially of African descent, throughout the city of new york in order to promote lifelong opportunities and for independence, inclusion and richer lives.The mission will be accomplished:-By providing city-wide leadership, support, and coordination;-By providing constructive influence and access to the processes affecting the organization and its constituencies;-By providing person-centered, accessible, and comprehensive quality services to individuals' needs;-By actively engaging constituents and their families in advocacy and policy-making decisions.
What it reported doing in 2024
Day habilitation program: this program offers habilitative training in life skills, including but not limited to travel training, budgeting, shopping skills, money management, activities of daily living (adl), job skills, counseling, role-playing, social skills, recreation and other activities based on each individualized needs in a program setting or in a community appropriate environmental settings where such skills development naturally occur. Individuals whose family members work during the day can have a place to go and learn meaningful skills and socialize during the day. This program allows for ongoing skills acquisition for the individuals while at the same time allowing their family members to engage in their normal activities during the weekdays.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
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: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.9%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.7%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.9% of revenue deployed · 91.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $397K · 9 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Board meeting minutes documented not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.