New Communities Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
815393817
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Westbrook, ME, USA
Phone
2075910751
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Low-Income & Subsidized Rental Housing

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$25,860,467
Expenses
$23,905,091
Assets
$25,564,634
Liabilities
$2,751,266

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

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Maureen Conley (President/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Maureen Conley (President/CEO): $522,736 total reported compensation
  • David Dill (Chief Financial Officer): $294,107 total reported compensation
  • Darcy Dumont (Dir. of Aging and Disability Svcs.): $259,011 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

New Communities (NCI's) mission is to create supportive communities and deliver innovative services for seniors and people with disabilities. NCI promotes community integration and inclusion through its operation of community based residential facilities and programs for the elderly, for persons with chronic mental illness, and for persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities or autism. These services help marginalized individuals be as independent as possible and participate in life in every possible way.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Intellectual Disabilities (ID) division of New Communities, Inc., provides 24-hour per day residential services in 14 group and client homes located across Maine to approximately 45 adults with intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, physical disabilities, behavioral and emotional disabilities, and chronic illnesses who are in need of personal service, support or assistance for self-protection or for sustaining activities of daily living. Services are customized and based on individualized personal plans of care developed by the individual served and their planning team. Typical services include personal care, direct support in cooking and housekeeping, medication assistance, transportation, and assistance in the community for shopping and recreation. The ID division also operates community day support services programs in Madison and Norway, Maine. These programs provide services to adults with intellectual disabilities and/or autism that include activities designed to increase community integration, foster socialization and peer supports, and facilitate creative and recreational person-centered interests and activities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 87
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1,143.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 16th 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: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.6%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $21.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $523K · 13 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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.
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.