Suny Cobleskill Auxiliary Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141416206
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Cobleskill, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5182555540
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- University or Technological Institute
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,771,168
- Expenses
- $8,238,530
- Assets
- $9,471,680
- Liabilities
- $2,019,327
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- S SCOTT FERGUSON (PRESIDENT)
- WENDY GILMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARION TERENZIO (COLLEGE PRESIDENT)
- KEVIN D'ONOFRIO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KEVIN D'ONOFRIO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $133,208 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary exempt purposes of the corporation are to establish, operate, manage and promote educationally related services for the benefit of the campus community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Other services & activities: campus support, coby's, and cas properties- profits support campus projects and scholarships. Coby's downtown resaurant serves the campus and culinary students. Cas owned property serves our campus farm needs and storage.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.1%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 74.7%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.1%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.1% of revenue deployed · 74.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $133K · 19 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.8M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.