Neighbors Link Corp

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
134088125
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Mount Kisco, NY, USA
Phone
9146663410
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Ethnic, Immigrant Centers

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$13,975,044
Expenses
$10,918,340
Assets
$19,064,375
Liabilities
$3,174,441

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

26 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • CAROLA BRACCO (EXECUTIVE DI): $422,510 total reported compensation
  • KARIN J ANDERSON (ATTORNEY): $181,980 total reported compensation
  • KATHY THORSBERG (CHIEF FINANC): $177,393 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Neighbors link corporation's mission is to strengthen the whole community by actively enhancing the healthy integration of immigrants. Neighbors link staff, along with over 900 community volunteers, offer programs in english as a second language, parent education, workforce development and education, legal services, and crisis and support services. The organization served over 10,000 clients in 2025.

What it reported doing in 2025

Family center education for parents and children: family center's parent-child together programs are designed to reinforce and enhance a parent's ability to improve their children's cognitive and social skills. Parents learn critical techniques to motivate and inspire their children. The family center philosophy includes the concept that parents are their child's first teachers. The primary goals for the family center are to address the urgent need to improve social readiness among the families that we serve; to close the widening achievement gap between immigrant children and their peers and to raise college-bound children or career ready - thus breaking the family cycle of poverty. Family center also provides two academic enrichment programs for elementary school children that need added support in reading and math skills. The learning links after school program runs all school year and is offered to all students who are performing below grade level. The summer links program operates for five weeks in the summer. In 2025, 1,651 parents and children were served by the family center education programs. Family and individual support services: in 2025, our 1:1 case management work increased by 22% from 2024, serving 1,122 unique clients most significantly in food distribution, housing and crisis interventions.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 81% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 59
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.5%; rating input score 68
  • Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $17.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 21.9%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.5% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $9.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $423K · 26 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $622K reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.