Spectrum Designs Foundation Ltd
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 275020830
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Port Washington, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5167677187
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Sheltered Employment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,801,895
- Expenses
- $8,899,532
- Assets
- $7,423,719
- Liabilities
- $1,928,040
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOTHY NARENDRAN (BOARD MEMBER & PRESIDENT)
- CHRIS BOFFA (BOARD MEMBER & VICE PRESIDENT)
- PATRICK BARDSLEY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- PATRICK BARDSLEY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $271,479 total reported compensation
- MARISSA BORZYKOWSKI (CHIEF OF STAFF): $155,280 total reported compensation
- TIM HOWE (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $154,676 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide employment and vocational opportunities for individuals with autism, by operating a customized apparel printing company with appropriate supports, assisting those with autism in leading fuller more productive lives through the world of work.
What it reported doing in 2025
Operates a company specializing in customization and sales of apparel and promotional products, providing vocation opportunities for individuals with autism and developmental disabilities. Individuals are taught skills such as operating printing machinery, sales and graphic design.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% 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 most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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; 63rd 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: 9.2%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $271K · 13 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.