Pillar Care Continuum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 226069076
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cedar Knolls, NJ, US
- Phone
- (973) 992-1140
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Birth Defects and Genetic Diseases
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,908,973
- Expenses
- $47,852,856
- Assets
- $41,626,932
- Liabilities
- $16,392,145
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID BISHOP (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
- PETER MANDELL (VICE PRESIDENT - FINANCE)
- JOSEPH SCHWARTZ (VICE PRESIDENT - EDUCATION)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID BISHOP (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $255,398 total reported compensation
- LINDA PEPE (CFO): $214,183 total reported compensation
- PETER MANDELL (VICE PRESIDENT - FINANCE): $159,964 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Lifelong Support for People with Disabilities
What it reported doing in 2024
Our residential services program works to provide individualized support in a 24-hour setting for adults with disabilities and special needs. We believe that adults with disabilities should have the same rights as any other adults to live and thrive independently within their community. We opened our first community residence in 1997 and have worked continually to develop new homes in multiple counties throughout northern New Jersey to help the thousands of families in need of this assistance. We provide around-the-clock care to achieve and/or maintain outcomes of increased independence, productivity, enhanced family functioning and inclusion in the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 95% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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: 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: 9.6%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $43.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $255K · 27 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.9M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 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: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 9 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.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.