Partners in Prevention
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222813616
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Secaucus, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 2015522264
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,092,967
- Expenses
- $5,877,731
- Assets
- $2,069,461
- Liabilities
- $1,370,903
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOEL TORRES (PRESIDENT)
- MARIA BIANCHERI (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DOUG BRATTON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- DOUG BRATTON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $148,491 total reported compensation
- KHADKJAH N SANTOS (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $118,112 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Partners in Prevention promotes wellness and prevents substance use disorders and related health challenges in Hudson County and New Jersey. To accomplish this the agency works cooperatively with many individuals, groups, and associations throughout Hudson County, New Jersey and the nation.
What it reported doing in 2023
Conducts comprehensive alcohol, tobacco, prescription, and other drug prevention services throughout Hudson County and New Jersey, with a focus on individual/community education, advocacy, policy change, and referral to treatment/recovery support services. Addresses root causes, local conditions, the community environment, and individual, family, and community risk and protective factors impacting substance use disorders and other related problems.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 89% 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.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.3%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,245.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 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: 3.5%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.66; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.3% of revenue deployed · 87.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $148K · 12 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $320K reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2009 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.