New York Council on Adoptable Children Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237269678
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2124750222
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adoption
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,473,940
- Expenses
- $2,472,226
- Assets
- $1,392,515
- Liabilities
- $824,589
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JOANN BUTTARO (EXECUTIVE DI): $244,791 total reported compensation
- SORAYA SWABY (FISCAL DIREC): $139,086 total reported compensation
- ESTEFANA AVILA (ATTORNEY): $102,215 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 organization proactively identifies, develops, recruits, stabilizes and strengthens family systems to provide permanent, loving and nurturing homes to all children. Coac's vision is to ensure that every child has a permanent, loving and nurturing home and family.
What it reported doing in 2024
The New York city family permanency center serves post-adoptive families. All services are available in english and in spanish to eligible families living in the five boroughs of New York city, and include: crisis intervention and information through coac's telephone warm lineindividualand family counseling in the home, in the community and at the coac officereferrals for mental health serviceslinkage and coordination with other needed services in the communitycoordination with coac's legal services for families affected by HIV/aidssupport groups and educational workshops for parents and caregivers and for youthrecreational and cultural group activities for families and youthreferrals for youth to mentoring, tutoring and employment programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 76% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.2%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 95.2%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $488.39 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
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: 0.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.2% of revenue deployed · 95.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $245K · 10 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.