The Neighborhood Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
150532097
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Utica, NY, USA
Phone
3152722616
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Neighborhood Centers

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$19,797,541
Expenses
$19,841,537
Assets
$20,580,307
Liabilities
$13,469,553

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ALBERT CASAB (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • FRANK DONATO (PRESIDENT)
  • SANDRA L SOROKA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • SANDRA L SOROKA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $200,657 total reported compensation
  • KAROLE LOUCKS BLUMBERG (CONTROLLER): $136,731 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To enrich the lives of individuals and families through cooperative opportunities, resources, and advocacy which embrace diversity, promote empowerment, and foster responsible citizenship.

What it reported doing in 2024

Mental health - this program provides mental health services for children and adults and consists of several programs designed to effectively prevent and treat mental illness and crisis situations. The child and family behavioral health clinics operate out of utica and rome. In 2024, over 3,400 clients were served in the utica and rome clinics. The health home model of care management promotes and improves the health and well being of the population served. This model ensures medical consumers with complex medical, behavioral and/or long term care needs are addressed in a comprehensive manner. During 2024, utica/rome care management served approximately 1,400 individuals. Adult recovery services provides specialized programs to enhance independent living skills, increase wellness and understanding of mental illness, and provide socialization, peer support, and assistive employment services for adults diagnosed with mental illness. This program operates in utica and rome and served approximately 500 individuals in 2024. Mobile crisis assessment team is a 7 day/24 hour basis program designed to ensure an immediate response to crisis situations to prevent escalation, assure safety, and provide linkages to mental health services to prevent crisis reocurrance. The program is totally mobile and it provides community centered services in oneida, herkimer, chenango, deleware, otsego and schoharie counties. During 2024, approximately 21,000 mcat services were documented. The family ties program provides home-based, family focused, child friendly, strength based short term intensive counseling services for children up to age 18 and their families in the herkimer county. In 2024, services were provided to aproximately 70 children and their families.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 66% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.9%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • 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: Limited

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: -0.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.65; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.9% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $17.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $201K · 11 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $176K reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.