Onondaga Council on Alcoholism Addictions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 150532218
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3154711359
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Treatment Only
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,581,097
- Expenses
- $1,732,027
- Assets
- $2,072,663
- Liabilities
- $1,121,354
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JONATHAN HAMBLIN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DONNA KNAPP (EXECUTIVE DI): $83,100 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide prevention education, intervention, and referral services that reduce the impact of substance misuse and support healthy decision-making accross all stages of life.
What it reported doing in 2025
Educational and referral prevention network is a trusted provider delivering evidence-based programs that strengthen our communities and support indiviudals at every stage of life whether is it: empowering youth to make healthy decisions- providing parents with guidance and support- offering overdose prevention training- connecting individuals to recovery resources- empowering healthy choices- preventing substance missuse- providing support and resources
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 79% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 78.7%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.4% of revenue deployed · 78.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $83K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 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.
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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.