On Point Nyc Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208672015
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2129237600
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,268,609
- Expenses
- $16,203,740
- Assets
- $45,086,995
- Liabilities
- $26,566,297
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- SAMUEL RIVERA (EXECUTIVE DI): $195,105 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL PAPPAS (PHYSICIAN-DR): $128,177 total reported compensation
- BRENT GIBSON (SR DIRECTOR): $123,895 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
On point nyc, inc. Is a community based organization whose mission is to significantly improve the health and quality of life of people who use drugs in the Washington heights area of manhattan. To help overcome stigma and systemic barriers to care, the organization provides support and services in an empowering and non-judgmental environment and apply a participant-driven harm reduction approach. The organization expands access to clean syringes through street-based outreach, and provides resources, advocacy, and a broad range of educational, health and referral services that reduce risks associated with drug use, including HIV, viral hepatitis and overdose.
What it reported doing in 2024
On point nyc, inc. Provides syringe exchange, risk reduction counseling and HIV prevention education services. Our programmatic goal is to reduce the spread of HIV among injection drug users and others in the New York Washington heights community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 94% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $150.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.9%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.78; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 37.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.8% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $195K · 11 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $321K reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.