Onondaga Community College Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222318303
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3154986060
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community or Junior Colleges
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,820,596
- Expenses
- $7,814,381
- Assets
- $29,755,074
- Liabilities
- $2,457,495
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WARREN HILTON (COLLEGE PRESIDENT)
- KATHLEEN D'APRIX (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (FORMER))
- LOUIS NOCE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- WARREN HILTON (COLLEGE PRESIDENT): $352,561 total reported compensation
- MARK MANNING (CFO & VP FINANCE): $206,821 total reported compensation
- KATHLEEN D'APRIX (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (FORMER)): $114,341 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To raise, administer and invest funds for the benefit of onondaga community college and its students.
What it reported doing in 2024
The largest program of services is awarding scholarships to students attending onondaga community college. 566 awards for scholarship and academic support distributed to students in varying amounts based on the student need, merit and/or field of study. Academic support is the next major service program, supporting students with funding needs including tuition support, workforce program awards, phi theta kappa honor society due and regalia, and funding for academic research presentations. Student support is the third largest program. The programming supports the community care hub, which services student emergency needs, career services programming for students and other student support related initiatives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $74.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 20th 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: -34.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.81; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $353K · 30 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $285K reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.