New Horizon Counseling Center
Legal name: New Horizon Counseling Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 112593090
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Ozone Park, NY, USA
- Phone
- 718-738-6800; 718-327-9001; 516-569-6600; 631-257-5173
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,868,213
- Expenses
- $89,148,378
- Assets
- $74,818,014
- Liabilities
- $27,399,230
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARY GOLDSTEIN (PRESIDENT / CHAIRMAN)
- THOMAS MATTIOLI (VICE PRESIDENT)
- HERRICK LIPTON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- HERRICK LIPTON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $1,179,401 total reported compensation
- FLORA BIENSTOCK (CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER): $667,451 total reported compensation
- SHAMILA KADIM (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $646,051 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Strengthen communities by providing the best quality behavioral health care and care management which promotes the emotional well-being, independence, and empowerment of individuals. Provide an integrated health services model that focuses on the latest evidence based practices to help our clients become active and productive members of their communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mental health services, psychiatric treatment, psychotherapy & counseling services, socialization & rehabilitation programs, individual sessions, clinic program, containing day treatment programs and case management programs. The number of persons benefited was approximately 28,233 persons.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 93% 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
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: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $80.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 19 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.1M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 19 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.