Tovah Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
454152231
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
West Hartford, CT, USA
Phone
8605702000
Rating
36
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Housing Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$72,750
Expenses
$45,630
Assets
$46,865
Liabilities
$7,225

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KATHERINE J LAMBERT ESQ (PRESIDENT)
  • KIMBERLY PIETRORAZIO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • RICHARD C LILJEDAHL (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • KATHERINE J LAMBERT ESQ (PRESIDENT)
  • KIMBERLY PIETRORAZIO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • LOUIS A SCHATZ ESQ (DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Affordable housing resident service development

What it reported doing in 2024

1) resident service coordination program development: tovah, inc. Provides management agents and owners with a full range of resident service coordination program development services including: resident/supportive services business plan development, grant exploration, development, preparation & administration; staff recruitment, training, and supervision; program management; effective recordkeeping tools and report management services.2) resident service coordination quality assurance & program & oversight: tovah, inc. Conducts outcome-based program analysis to ensure regulatory resident service coordination compliance. Tovah, inc. Implements a comprehensive quality assurance program to track, measure and report qualitative and quantitative outcomes, service delivery and utilization, performance satisfaction, impact and cost savings. Owners, management agent and funders reports are derived from outcomes reported via standardized service delivery and utilization recordkeeping tools; resident, service coordinator and management/owner evaluations; and on-site quality assurance reviews.3) resident leadership capacity development: tovah inc. Provides technical assistance and support to establish and sustain an active resident council organization and/or board. Start-up guidance, by-law development, leadership training, and tools are developed in coordination with partnership entities to address organizational structure and goals. On-going training and support is provided to guide and support organizations in the on-going development to ensure for maximum effectiveness, understanding of roles and responsibilities and outcomes. 4) neighborhood revitalization training project pride: tovah inc. Developed project pride (promoting resident involvement in developing enterprising communities) a comprehensive, multi-faceted program for developing, implementing and monitoring resident engagement plans and resident participation agreements resulting in successful and sustainable revitalization initiatives. Project pride provides a series of training opportunities and an informational toolkit for housing authority staff, owners, management agents, developers, commissioners, and resident council members underscoring and promoting the importance of the participatory process in community revitalization efforts and overall operations.5) relocation management services: tovah inc. Provides comprehensive relocation management services developed in coordination with developers, owners, funders and management agents to ensure that residents are relocated in accordance with the uniform relocation act (ura) requirements and program goals. Relocation services include: relocation plan development; resident education; relocation advisory services; case management; provision of requisite notices and reports; coordination and implementation of all activities related to local, state, and uniform relocation act (ura) requirements and post relocation assessment.6) professional staff development training: tovah, inc. Provides practical training for site based property management, resident services and maintenance staff regarding issues faced on a daily basis. Training programs address organizational needs and stress the importance of documentation, using incident reports as a tool to acquire help, confidentiality, addressing lease violations, reasonable accommodations, addressing challenging resident behavior, policies and procedures, and professional intervention.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 37.3%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -15.1% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.