Upstate New York Community Partners Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472616775
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5853254170
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing Rehabilitation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $995,997
- Expenses
- $1,571,350
- Assets
- $522,161
- Liabilities
- $935,620
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dan Hawrylczak (President)
- Cathy Comiskey (Vice President)
- Clarence Simmons (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Clarence Simmons (CEO): $182,000 total reported compensation
- Adriana Eastlack Director of (Finance (Through 5/24)): $54,154 total reported compensation
- Kevin Sutherland Director of (Finance (Beginning 10/24)): $24,039 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 enhance the quality of life for residents of Upstate New York from the neighborhood to regional level. To provide housing solutions for people and neighborhoods to build vibrant communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization provides management and oversight of programs offered by affiliated organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - Most voting board members are independent and 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: 16
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21.4%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 14
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- 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: -57.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.79; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 21.4% of revenue deployed · 13.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $213K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $182K · 18 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $200K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 11 filed related-organization links
- 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 21/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.