Ridgewood Newcomers
Legal name: Ridgewood Newcomers Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822224621
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Ridgewood, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6466601828
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $42,364
- Expenses
- $41,081
- Assets
- $51,912
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELISSA DABBARA (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MELISSA DABBARA (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ISHWARYA CITRO (SECRETARY)
- JANE ROUSE (COMMUNITY & DIVERSITY LIAISON)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ridgewood Newcomers is a non-profit, volunteer-based club dedicated to helping new residents build community, learn about our village and give back through partnerships with other local service-based organizations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Events are conducted to facilitate the entry of new residents into, and educate them about, the social, community, cultural and civic life of the ridgewood, New Jersey area and advancing the concepts of citizenship, community involvement and community development. The specific programs we run for our membership include family fun activiites, evening socials, interest groups (i.e. Working women, fitness group, book club, etc.), new membership events, and a communications team that informs new residents of things going on in the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.4%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 53%; rating input score 53
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.26; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th 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: 51.4% of revenue deployed · 53% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.