Tioga Opportunities Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 160907793
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Owego, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6076874222
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Home Improvement and Repairs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,542,674
- Expenses
- $6,801,642
- Assets
- $6,430,961
- Liabilities
- $3,946,175
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAUREEN ABBOTT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KAREN JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
- RANDAL KERR (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MAUREEN ABBOTT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $115,637 total reported compensation
- CHRISTINA BROWN (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $75,542 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 agency is an umbrella to about 40 different programs funded by categorical federal, state, and local grants. As a community action agency, tioga opportunities, inc. Is charged with -goal #1: helping low-income people become more self-sufficient.goal #2: improving the conditions in which low-income people live.goal #3: helping low-income people own a stake in their communitygoal #4: achieving partnerships with supporters and providers of services to low-income people.goal #5: increasing tioga opportunities, inc.'s capactiy to achieve results.goal #6: helping low-income people, especially vulnerable populations, achieve their potential by strengthening family and other supportive systems.
What it reported doing in 2024
The department of aging functions as tioga county's lead agency in addressing the needs and concerns of non-institutionalized elderly citizens. The department plans, coordinates, establishes inter-agency linkages, and provides programs designed to assist older persons in leading independent, meaningful, and dignified lives in their homes and communities for as long as possible. The range of services include, but is not limited to, information and assistance, case management, congregate and home delivered meals, nutrition education and counseling, caregiver support, non-medical in-home care, non-criminal legal services, benefit and entitlement education and enrollment assistance, ny connects tioga county, and volunteer transportation services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 85% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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; 63rd 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: -4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.61; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.1% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $5.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $116K · 16 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $588K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.