Rochester District Heating Cooperative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161235605
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5855468890
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,208,365
- Expenses
- $4,692,645
- Assets
- $12,121,226
- Liabilities
- $5,639,678
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mr Dan DiLoreto (Board President)
- Mr Kurt Sertl (Board Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Mr John Duchesneau (General Manager): $251,991 total reported compensation
- Mr Ryan Macauley (Chief Financial Officer): $169,452 total reported compensation
- Mr Zachary Day (Plant Operator): $127,567 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rochester District Heating Cooperative, Inc. was formed to acquire, modernize, improve and operate a steam heating generation and distribution system for the benefit of its members.
What it reported doing in 2024
Operation of a steam heating generation and distribution system for the benefit of its members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 9.9%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.58; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 50 of 50 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $252K · 14 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $408K reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.