The Arc, Ocean County Chapter
Legal name: The Arc Ocean County Chapter Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 210723435
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Brick, NJ, US
- Phone
- (732) 363-3335
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing, Shelter N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,925,147
- Expenses
- $36,314,888
- Assets
- $35,837,219
- Liabilities
- $4,721,710
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANNETTE VICARI-APPLEHEIMER (PRESIDENT)
- JOANNE BERGIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- RUTH CHURCHILL (PAST PRESIDENT)
- DONNA STUMP (PAST PRESIDENT)
- LAURA WILLIAMS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MATTHEW BRADY (ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (VOCATIONAL)
Highest reported compensation
- LAURA WILLIAMS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $361,665 total reported compensation
- NANCY CADIGAN (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECT): $200,345 total reported compensation
- DAVID NYAMETE LPN (LPN): $154,415 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 Arc, Ocean County Chapter's mission is to advocate, provide opportunities and supports necessary for all individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to be accepted and valued as citizens of the community in which they choose to live, learn, work and play.
What it reported doing in 2024
Family supports provide assistance to clients and families in various ways, including respite in and out of the home, support coordination services, community-based supports, and recreation services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 88% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 91.1%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $815.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 21st 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: 6.7%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.4% of revenue deployed · 91.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $33.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $362K · 18 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $357K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- 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 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.