New York State Crime Stoppers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611420590
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Carmel, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9147887089
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Interest Law
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $138,226
- Expenses
- $189,758
- Assets
- $24,714
- Liabilities
- $220,649
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALEX MANCONE (CHAIRMAN/CEO)
- BRETT JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ALEX MANCONE (CHAIRMAN/CEO)
- BRETT JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
- YOHANNY PORTILLO (TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization is a resource for all levels of law enforcement throughout the state of New York. Awards of up to $2,500 are offered anonymously to members of the general public for information leading to the arrest and conviction of violent criminals in New York state. The organization gathers crucial information to solve criminal cases by incentivizing collaboration between the public and law enforcement.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization was established to lessen the burden on state and local governments and to assist, promote and further the purpose of effective law enforcement by interacting with the general public, the media, governmental police to effectuate the prevention, detection and prosecution of criminal acts by offering rewards designed to motivate members of the general public to cooperate by providing anonymous information along with over 1,000 drug dealer tips provided for investigation by nys police, county and local police.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 27
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.6%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 23.5%; rating input score 23
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th 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: 90%; rating input score 90; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -37.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 8.93; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.6% of revenue deployed · 23.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.