The Fogarty Center

Overview

Mission

The Fogarty Center’s mission is to empower people to improve the quality of their lives. The Fogarty Center (FC) has created the _OPTIONS_ program in a direct response to the self-direction movement within the national developmental disability community. People with developmental and other disabilities as well as the aging community want greater independence. Access to the “traditional” service delivery system is often the “first stop”. As more services are acquired to aid in their quest for true independence, day-to-day decisions are often taken out of their hands and placed under the control of programs, administrators, and the bureaucratic process. The OPTIONS payroll agent model allows people to take control of all support resources already at their disposal. Functions such.

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 100% 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.

• Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 84
• Transparency & Controls: 74
• Accountability: 95
• Sustainability: 42
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
• Where the money goes: 93.4% of revenue deployed · 97.2% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $116.5M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $232K · 15 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
• Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
• Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
• 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
• Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.
• High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.