Somebody Cares Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222176240
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Whiting, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 7323501400
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $65,922
- Expenses
- $154,700
- Assets
- $370,879
- Liabilities
- $5,355
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHANIE HERBURGER (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TILL OCTOBER 2024)
- PATRICIA DONAGHUE (PRESIDENT/CEO EFF. OCTOBER 2024)
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHANIE HERBURGER (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TILL OCTOBER 2024): $7,600 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A senior volunteer organization that provides many services to the crestwood community including: local transportation (dial-a-ride), wheelchair van to doctors, the loaning of medical equipment and items useful for visiting family members; referrals for those needing to employ service personnel, and information from community members including lawyers, money managers and those trained to answer questions in the elder-care fields.
What it reported doing in 2024
Somebody cares, inc., an allvolunteer program in whiting, nj, is dedicated to seniors helping seniors. The organization provides services including: notarizing documents; preparing living wills and advising on insurance matters; maintaining and lending physical AIDS (such as walkers, wheelchairs, crutches, and hospital beds); providing transportation services in order to allow residents to obtain medical care and groceries; administering community orientation programs; providing companionship for the lonely; and counseling of senior citizens to help them become acclimated and adjusted to the problems of retirement, advancing age, sickness, and the loss of a family member.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -134.7%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.4; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $134K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $8K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.