Stop Croman Coalition Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832977013
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2129825495
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $759
- Expenses
- $1,297
- Assets
- $57
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Cynthia Chaffee (Director)
- Peter Chaffee (Director)
- Brian Kenner (Director)
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
Tenant Advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2025
Expose the Cromans' lawless tactics and systematic patterns of harassment and abuse; Educate tenants about their legal rights; Organize and mobilize Croman tenants throughout the city; Maintain a city-wide support system, by networking with each other, our elected officials, tenant advocacy groups and other tenant coalitions and civic organizations; Research information and compile data for regulatory agencies; Direct tenants to the appropriate agencies and resources; Assist tenants to fight back against abuse and keep their homes; Spread the word via website, internet and group meetings to other victims of abusive landlords and support them in collective action; Stop the Cromans and hold them accountable by legal means in appeals to government agencies including the New York State Attorney General. We have done all these by numerous zoom meetings to coalition members, attorneys, tenant housing advocates, personal meetings, numerous phone calls, arranging for lawyers for overwhelmed tenants, continually adding helpful information to our website and keeping it up to date with good security, providing for demonstrations, such as Croman's 72nd St. house around Christmas, and many other instances of assistance to tenants and collaboration with organizations that assist tenants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -70.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 9; 9th 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: -60.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.