SERV Centers of New Jersey, Inc.

Legal name: Serv Centers of New Jersey Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
222090976
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Piscataway, NJ, US
Phone
609-406-0100
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$44,346,129
Expenses
$43,652,751
Assets
$30,659,734
Liabilities
$5,744,977

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • REGINA WIDDOWS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/PRESIDENT)
  • AHMED TAYLOR (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, PROPERTIES AND MANAGEMENT)
  • ASTRID HERRERA (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, QUALITY AND COMPLIANCE)
  • PAUL LUBIAK (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, IT & BUSINESS TRANSFORMATIO)
  • MARINDA WALLER (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, ACCESS AND CONTINUUM OF CAR)

Highest reported compensation

  • REGINA WIDDOWS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/PRESIDENT): $536,946 total reported compensation
  • VALERIE DION (CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER): $255,373 total reported compensation
  • ROBERT BACON (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $253,579 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

SERV Behavioral Health System, Inc. is dedicated to providing comprehensive behavioral health and developmental disability services to individuals in New Jersey.

What it reported doing in 2024

Serv centers of New Jersey, inc. Serves more than seventeen hundred individuals each year across morris, passaic, hudson, union, middlesex, and mercer counties. In 2020, serv expanded its services to include partners in wellness, a certified community behavioral health clinic (ccbhc), and in 2021, began offering outpatient treatment for adults and adolescents with substance use disorders.serv provides a full continuum of care, including adult residential services and community support services (css), which offer individual and group therapy, life skills development, and assistance with transportation, budgeting, shopping, and meal planning. Css also supports individuals in achieving independent living through permanent housing options, while promoting emotional and social growth.additional services include partial care, outpatient mental health treatment for youth and adults, integrated ccbhc care that prioritizes whole-person health, and outpatient substance use and detox services for adults, as well as substance use services for youth. In 2025, serv supported approximately 2,500 individuals across all programs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some related-organization disclosures are missing and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 10th 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.6%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 77% of revenue deployed · 78.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $537K · 20 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.3M reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 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: 12 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 11 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.

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 — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.