Tusten Social Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882168579
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Narrowsburg, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9175094726
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,856
- Expenses
- $77,304
- Assets
- $3,653
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Greta Knutzen (Board Chair, Co-Founder and Acting Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Greta Knutzen (Board Chair, Co-Founder and Acting Executive Director)
- Jean Kogut (Board Treasurer)
- Leslie Hess (Board Member)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We believe social isolation is a threat to the health and happiness of rural communities, compounded by the challenges of post-Covid disconnection, technology-induced loneliness, increased political division and the lack of social opportunities for children, teens and aging adults. Connection is the solution. Tusten Social creates and supports opportunities for social infrastructure within our community and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2025
Teen Programming. Offer weekly after-school instructor-led art and culinary classes for children in grades 7 and up. Featured zine-making, a fabrics workshop, an Italian culinary course. Provides rural teens with a safe place to spend after-school hours with trained facilitators in a positive learning and social setting. Serve nutritious snacks. Serve 15 teens at each event.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 28
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.5%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 27.4%; rating input score 27
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.5% of revenue deployed · 27.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 29/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.