The New York State FFA Leadership Traini
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 156012484
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Croghan, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3153461222
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development - Agricultural
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,843,055
- Expenses
- $1,479,314
- Assets
- $6,952,740
- Liabilities
- $1,417,105
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Todd Lighthall (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Todd Lighthall (Executive Director): $69,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support and assist in the development of our greatest resource...young people.To provide businesses, associations, other foundations and individuals the opportunity to support New York FFA.To recognize and award New York FFA members for their achievements in leadership, career development, and agricultural knowledge.To expand interest and enrollment in agree-science courses and FFA Chapters throughout New York.To educate the general population of New York about the diversity of New York State agriculture and its necessary role in everyday life.
What it reported doing in 2025
To develope students potential for leadership, personal growth and career success by providing positive learning experience with educational programing
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 63% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.6%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 79.6%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.7%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.7; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.6% of revenue deployed · 79.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $69K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.