New York City Parents In Action Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
133049256
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2012
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2124260240
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$231,014
Expenses
$156,474
Assets
$1,413,899
Liabilities
$692

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

Leadership & pay

23 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Charles Harkless (President)
  • Abby Rothschild (Vice President)
  • Michaela Clary (Vice President)
  • Maria Underwood (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Charles Harkless (President)
  • Linda Kelly (Secretary)
  • Abby Rothschild (Vice President)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

NYC-Parents in Action, Inc. is a non-profit volunteer organization committed to open, effective parent-to-parent and parent-to-child communication. We provide education, information, and support on social, developmental, and substance abuse issues. Our goal is to help parents guide young adults toward healthy, informed choices.

What it reported doing in 2025

Seminars and Signature Events:_NYC-Parents in Action hosts educational events, including our expert-led online seminar series and our signature programs: Parenting Scene and Teen Scene. Parenting Scene is an open discussion series that brings together parents, educators, and thought leaders to explore best practices for raising and educating children today. Teen Scene, a long-standing tradition held annually for over 30 years, provides parents with candid insights into teen life through a moderated panel of NYC high school students. Topics include academics, stress, social life, mental health, gender identity, and substance use. In addition, we presented five timely, expert-led online seminars to further support and inform parents on a range of development topics from grief to puberty and beyond.

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

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 63
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 78
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 60.1%; rating input score 60
  • Program expense ratio: 79.2%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 32.3%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.04; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 60.1% of revenue deployed · 79.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $124K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 23 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.