Modest Community Services Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134288916
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Staten Island, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7184478200
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,067,934
- Expenses
- $2,782,106
- Assets
- $1,838,597
- Liabilities
- $1,373,046
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- SAMUEL OSHO (EXECUTIVE DI): $116,054 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 agency's objective is to provide appropriate support and services to individuals with developmental disabilities of all ages and their families. Modest begins with a belief that each person has the potential for growth and personal development regardless of disability at any age. Further, we believe that each person is entitled to a meaningful life enabling him/her to pursue his/her goals. At modest, we are committed to assisting persons with intellectual disabilities to live healthier, happier, meaningful and satisfying lives. The richness in quality of lives as well as the happiness written all over the faces of our individuals receiving services is our success story.
What it reported doing in 2024
Residential services are provided in person's homes, through certified homes and similar room and board and individualized service options. These services include adaptive skill development; assistance with activities of daily living (hands-on); community inclusion and relationship building; training and support for independence in travel; transportation; adult educational supports; developmental social skills, liesure skills, self- advocacy and informed choice skills; and appropriate behavior development to help the individual access their community. Staff supervision is provided to consumers onsite anywhere from several hours per week to 24 hours a day, based upon the consumer's assessed needs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 78% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.6%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 65.6%; rating input score 66
- 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 9.3%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.75; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.6% of revenue deployed · 65.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $116K · 6 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $258K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.