Nutley Family Service Bureau
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 221487279
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Nutley, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9736671884
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Counseling
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,136,597
- Expenses
- $2,073,695
- Assets
- $1,323,158
- Liabilities
- $399,588
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL EVANGELISTA (VICE PRESIDENT/TRUST)
- MARLA HUNTER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DAVE POPKIN (BOARD PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KATHERINE CARMICHAEL (EXECUTIVE DIRCTOR): $144,762 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Nfsb's mission is to strengthen the social and emotional well-being of individuals and families through affordable mental health counseling and social service programs. Our vision is a community where mental well-being is an integral part of life.
What it reported doing in 2025
Mental health counseling servicesnfsb operates a licensed outpatient mental health practice providing individual, family, and group psychotherapy, psychiatric evaluation, and medication management to clients of every age. Services are offered on a sliding-fee basis and through most major insurance plans, including medicaid, so that no one is turned away for inability to pay. In 2025, 22 clinical providers delivered 7,637 treatment sessions to 486 unduplicated clients. Clients came from 67 municipalities, and nearly a third were children and adolescents under 18. The bureau also delivers school-based mental health services in partnership with the nutley public schools, placing a licensed clinician in district buildings to provide on-site counseling and consultation to students and families.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 0th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.1% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 30 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D expense reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.