The Center for Family Support
Legal name: The Center for Family Support Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 131913807
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- 212.629.7939
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,277,461
- Expenses
- $45,036,416
- Assets
- $25,623,016
- Liabilities
- $12,810,369
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LLOYD STABINER (PRESIDENT)
- ALICIA MCGRATH (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- ALICIA MCGRATH (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $333,786 total reported compensation
- LINDA CLOSS (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $240,469 total reported compensation
- JIM CRISCI (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER THRU JANUARY 2025): $183,209 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
And Vision The Center for Family Support is committed to providing support and assistance to individuals with developmental and related disabilities, and to the family members who care for them. To achieve our mission, we strive to:. The Center for Family Support is committed to providing support and assistance to individuals with developmental and related disabilities, and to the family members who care for them. To achieve our mission, we strive to: Support individuals to live the lives they want.
What it reported doing in 2024
Residential programs - we support 169 people throughout New York city's five boroughs and westchester county in various settings. Some people live in a group setting while others are better suited to live in their own apartments. We are committed to providing person centered supports with a focus on self -sufficiency and interdependence in a way that is unique to each person. We also believe that people with varying abilities all share in the same desire to call a place home, to find work that's meaningful and to be citizens who are valued and productive members in their communities. We work each day to help those we support fulfill those goals in life.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 82.1%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: 0.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 81.9% of revenue deployed · 82.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $37M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $334K · 27 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.5M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.