New York Council of Nonprofits Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141343047
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Albany, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5184349194
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,049,523
- Expenses
- $3,364,654
- Assets
- $3,988,508
- Liabilities
- $1,726,226
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MEGAN ALLEN (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MEGAN ALLEN (CEO): $153,816 total reported compensation
- KELLY MATHEWS (COO, SR. VP): $131,086 total reported compensation
- MICHELLE JARVAIS (SR. VP CFO): $128,399 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of nycon is to develop and promote an effective and vibrant charitable nonprofit community throughout New York. This is accomplished by strengthening organizational capacity, being an advocate and unifying voice, informing philanthropic giving, and conducting research and planning to demonstrate relevance and impact. Nycon works to enrich communities by building the capacity of nonprofits through services and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Center for advocacy and policy: to provide policy leadership in nys by pursuing legislative and regulatory issues at the federal, state, and local levels that are important to the vitality and well-being of the charitable nonprofit sector in the state; particularly, with respect to value and impact on community-based charities that are small to moderate in size.
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 90% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $148.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 73.8%; rating input score 74; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 16.9%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $154K · 17 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $118K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 23 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 23 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.