Improve Norwich Now Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834516847
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Norwich, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6072383392
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,817
- Expenses
- $36,280
- Assets
- $20,428
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEN WESTERVELT (PRESIDENT/CO-FOUNDER)
- ZACHARY MESECK (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LOIS LOPRESTI (BOARD MEMBER)
- MIKE GENUTE (BOARD MEMBER)
- JEN WESTERVELT (PRESIDENT/CO-FOUNDER)
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
This organization is exclusively charitable and intends to have a focus on mentoring community members. The organization is committed to making a difference in one life, one family, one situation at a time with a particular emphasis toward the community of norwich.
What it reported doing in 2025
As we strive to improve our community by helping people reach their full potential, we are focused on breaking through the barrier of illiteracy. Four methods we have put into action include one community, one book, the ymca reading reef, all i.n.n. For reading, and the paperback book exchange.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 66.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -43.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -51.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.