Queens Community House
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 112375583
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Queens, NY, US
- Phone
- (718) 592-5757
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $42,351,448
- Expenses
- $41,731,619
- Assets
- $43,280,682
- Liabilities
- $19,388,649
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL STELLMAN (PRESIDENT)
- FRANK LOUGHLIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BEN THOMASES (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- BEN THOMASES (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $311,105 total reported compensation
- SARA RAKITA (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $192,039 total reported compensation
- DENNIS REDMOND (CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER): $177,538 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Queens Community House provides individuals and families with the tools to enrich their lives and build healthy, inclusive communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Case management: qch helps older adults remain safe, stable, and connected through individualized case management services. Skilled case managers assess needs, develop care plans, and link clients to critical supports such as benefits assistance, home care, housing resources, and mental health services.services are offered in multiple languages and tailored to each person's cultural and personal circumstances. Case managers provide ongoing follow-up and advocacy, ensuring that older adults can navigate complex systems and maintain independence in their homes and communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 92% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 84.5%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $38.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: 1.5%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.3% of revenue deployed · 84.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $35.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $311K · 34 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.