Housing Assistance Program of Essex County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141601549
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Elizabethtown, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5188376888
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,510,343
- Expenses
- $2,750,742
- Assets
- $2,645,378
- Liabilities
- $811,152
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EMILY KILBURN (PRESIDENT)
- MEGAN MURPHY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (TILL SEPTEMBER 2025))
- CAITLIN WARGO (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (AS OF SEPTEMBER 2025))
Highest reported compensation
- ERIN SULLIVAN (CONTROLLER): $111,366 total reported compensation
- CAITLIN WARGO (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (AS OF SEPTEMBER 2025)): $107,703 total reported compensation
- MEGAN MURPHY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (TILL SEPTEMBER 2025)): $89,577 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 administer section 8 housing in clinton and essex counties, ny while also assisting low income resident complete home purchases and home renovations to maintain safe and adequate housing.
What it reported doing in 2025
Housing home ownership program provides housing counseling and financial assistance to low income residents of essex and clinton counties purchasing a home. Provides local government with assistance in administering their housing grants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 77% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.8% of revenue deployed · 83.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 13 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $616K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.