Silver Knights Chess Academy
Legal name: Parsons Child and Family Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141347440
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Albany, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5184262600
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,520,810
- Expenses
- $62,706,441
- Assets
- $57,824,521
- Liabilities
- $26,024,679
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM GETTMAN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- AMY EARSHEN (PHYSCIATRIST, RESIDENTIAL): $433,454 total reported compensation
- WILLIAM GETTMAN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $350,618 total reported compensation
- CHRISTINE DIMAIO (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $204,260 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 help children and families overcome trauma, behavioral challenges, and other obstacles to achieve stability and well-being.
What it reported doing in 2024
Crisis services - including mobile crisis, act (adults and youth), short-term community residence crisis stabilization programs for youth, and home-based crisis intervention (hbci). These are a continuum of mental health services community and residential services for individuals and/or families to address short term and serious long-term crisis services and daily coping mechanisms. For the two crisis residential programs in this division, approximately 2,639 care days were provided to 7 year-to-date average clients served.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 90.6%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.5%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 82% of revenue deployed · 90.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $56.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $433K · 15 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $6.4M reported
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.