Washington Cemetery
Legal name: Washington Cemetery Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 221367890
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, NJ, US
- Phone
- (973) 824-6871
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cemeteries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $495,060
- Expenses
- $497,960
- Assets
- $4,971,234
- Liabilities
- $553,389
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Louis Cicalese (President)
- Michael Baratta (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Louis Cicalese (President): $66,224 total reported compensation
- Michael Baratta (Vice President): $27,375 total reported compensation
- Michael Carvin (Trustee): $500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are in business to serve families—one at a time in the communities around our cemeteries—by educating and guiding each person with the importance of preplanning. With caring and compassion, we will guide them toward realistic burial, mausoleum, cremation and memorial options. To that end, we will make certain we are providing what they need and can afford. Only then are we truly serving.
What it reported doing in 2025
Cemetery serves numerous families with their burial and pre-planning needs providing a vital service to the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 21
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.7%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Limited
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.98; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 95.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $66K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.