The Elija Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030416348
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Levittown, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5162165270
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $300,845
- Expenses
- $266,437
- Assets
- $557,361
- Liabilities
- $220,902
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBORA THIVIERGE (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DEBORA THIVIERGE (CEO): $249,933 total reported compensation
- SUSAN WISNEWSKI (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $110,056 total reported compensation
- JODI TAGGORT (DIRECTOR): $105,878 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 purpose of the foundation is to educate and support families of children with autism.
What it reported doing in 2024
The purpose of the elija foundation is to educate and support families of children with autism. The foundation conducts workshops where experts make presentations to the families, professionals, therapists, and teachers with the goal of introducing new interventions. A website was also created to further educate parents. In addition, the foundation supports other organizations working with individuals on the spectrum, with particular emphasis on the elija family of organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 61% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 39.2%; rating input score 39
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.4%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.09; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37% of revenue deployed · 39.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $105K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $250K · 7 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.