NYC Autism Charter School
Legal name: New York Center for Autism Charter School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352255995
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2017
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- (212) 860-2580
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAROL SANTIAGO (PRESIDENT)
- JULIA FISHER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JULIA FISHER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $204,494 total reported compensation
- MARK SARETSKY (CFO): $138,374 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
NYC Autism Charter School offers a high quality education to students at no cost to their families, using individualized and evidence-based instruction rooted in the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and a 1:1 teacher/student ratio in most classrooms.
What it reported doing in 2017
The school provides individual, scientifically based, educational services to children with autism and other pervasive developmental disorders.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -24% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $204K · 17 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2009 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.