Integrity Incorporated

“The organization's federal form 990 was provided to each voting member of the governing body (its board of trustees) prior to filing with the internal revenue service ("irs"). As part of the tax return preparation process the organization hired a professional certified public accounting ("cpa") firm with experience and expertise in both healthcare and not-for-profit tax return preparation to prepare the federal form 990. The cpa firm's tax professionals worked closely with the organization's finance personnel and various other individuals of the organization ("internal working group") to obtain the information needed in order to prepare a complete and accurate tax return. The cpa firm prepared a draft federal form 990 and furnished it to the organization's internal working group for their review. The organization's internal working group reviewed the draft federal from 990 and discussed questions and comments with the cpa firm. Revisions were made to the draft federal form 990 where necessary and a final draft was furnished by the cpa firm to the organization's internal working group for review and approval of the internal working group and the finance committee prior to review of the federal form 990 by the organization's board of trustees and filing with the irs.”

“The organization regularly monitors and enforces compliance with its conflict of interest policy. Annually all members of the organization's governing body are required to sign a conflict of interest agreement. The completed agreements are reviewed by the executive committee of the organization's board of trustees. If a situation exists in which a trustee discloses an interest that could give rise to a conflict, the trustee's potential conflict is evaluated. The conflict and its potential impact on the trustee's participation on the board will be discussed by the executive committee and reviewed by the organization's governing body, where necessary.”

“The organization's board of trustees has a human resource committee ("committee"). This committee has adopted a written executive compensation philosophy which it follows when it reviews and approves the compensation and benefits of the organization's officers. The committee reviews the "total compensation" of officers which is intended to include both current and deferred compensation and all employee benefits, both qualified and non-qualified. The committee's review is done on at least an annual basis and ensures that the "total compensation" of officers is reasonable. The actions taken by the committee enable the organization to receive the rebuttable presumption of reasonableness for purposes of internal revenue code section 4958 with respect to the total compensation of senior management. The three factors which must be satisfied in order to receive the rebuttable presumption of reasonableness are the following: 1. The compensation arrangement is approved in advance by an "authorized body" of the applicable tax-exempt organization which is comprised entirely of individuals who do not have a "conflict of interest" with respect to the compensation arrangement; 2. The authorized body obtained and relied upon "appropriate data as to comparability" prior to making its determination; and 3. The authorized body "adequately documented the basis for its determination" concurrently with making that determination. The committee is comprised of members of the board of trustees each of who are independent and are free from any conflicts of interest. The committee relied upon appropriate comparable data; specifically, the committee reviewed external comparable data provided by the organization's human resource director. The committee adequately documented its basis for its determination through the timely preparation of written minutes of the committee meetings during which senior management's compensation and benefits were reviewed and subsequently approved. The actions outlined above with respect to the committee and the establishment of the rebuttable presumption of reasonableness only applies to senior management. The compensation and benefits of certain other individuals included within this form 990 are reviewed annually by the president & chief executive officer with assistance from the organization's chief financial officer in conjunction with the individual's job performance during the year and is based upon other objective factors designed to ensure that reasonable and fair market value compensation is paid by the organization. Other objective factors include market survey data for comparable positions, individual goals and objectives, personnel reviews, evaluations, self-evaluations and performance feedback meetings.”

“The organization's filed certificate of incorporation and any amendments can be obtained and reviewed through the state of new jersey department of the treasury.”

“Core form, part vii and schedule j reflect certain officers receiving compensation and benefits from the organization. Please note this remuneration was for services rendered as full-time employees of the organization and not for services rendered as a voting member or officer of this organization's board of trustees.”

“Background ========== integrity, inc. ("integrity") is a not-for-profit behavioral health rehabilitation center. Integrity is recognized by the internal revenue service ("irs") as an internal revenue code section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Pursuant to its charitable purposes, integrity, inc. Provides comprehensive therapeutic community addictions treatment, mental health services, and recovery support to all individuals in a non-discriminatory manner. Organization overview ====================== integrity was founded in newark, new jersey in 1968. The organization is a not-for-profit behavioral health rehabilitation provider that offers care and support to members in its community. Integrity has been licensed by the state of new jersey, division of mental health and addictions services for more than 30 years and has been accredited by the commission of accreditation of rehabilitation facilities ("carf") since 1997. Integrity has 18 licensed programs and over 250 employees positioned to service the needs of individuals seeking treatment for behavioral health issues. Integrity's operations have grown to serve 3,000 individuals annually from all 21 counties in new jersey from its newark, secaucus, toms river, morris plains, kearny and paramus locations. Integrity offers levels of care recognized by the american society of addiction medicine ("asam") including early intervention, long-term and short-term residential/inpatient treatment, halfway house, and outpatient care. As a part of its holistic approach to treatment, integrity offers its clients a wide variety of services including housing, medical/primary healthcare, mental health, medication-assisted treatment, family therapy, recovery support, hiv/aids prevention services, vocational, and educational services and harm reduction services. Care at integrity is client-centered in order to meet the unique needs of each client. While the majority of integrity's clients are adult men and women, the agency also has specialized programming for children, young men, women with children and incarcerated individuals. The use of evidence-based practices throughout integrity's programs has a positive impact on client outcomes. Some of the clinical therapies used at integrity house are cognitive behavioral therapy, contingency management, and motivational interviewing/motivational enhancement therapy. Mission ======= the organization's mission is to help individuals and families through an effective and measurable system of comprehensive therapeutic community addictions treatment, mental health treatment, and recovery support in a way that will bring about positive, long-term lifestyle change. Integrity's capabilities and competencies support individuals to achieve and sustain recovery, reunify with their families, obtain health services, job training, employment, supportive housing, community belonging and economic self-sufficiency. Campus locations ================= newark campus: integrity began rebuilding lives in the lincoln park district in august of 1968. Today, the integrity newark campus has 166 licensed, residential beds and offers long-term residential and outpatient treatment, halfway houses and supportive housing along with mental health, primary care, education, employment, prevention services and medication assisted treatment to men and women across 14 buildings. Integrity's certified community behavioral health clinic (ccbhc) is located on the newark campus and offers integrated health services to residents of essex county. Secaucus campus: in february of 1990, integrity house began providing services to 16 individuals at the former meadowview hospital in secaucus. Determined to build a place where individuals could recover, the therapeutic community got to work. Within a year of its opening, the integrity secaucus campus was serving 100 residential adult and adolescent clients. Today, with the support of dozens of referral sources and major funding from the state o”

“Primary services ================ short-term residential: the meadow program, on our secaucus campus, offers intensive treatment for individuals with substance use and co-occurring disorders. Long-term residential: with locations in newark and secaucus, our long-term residential programs are ideal for men and women with a history of chronic relapse. Halfway house: located on our newark and secaucus campuses, our halfway house programs assist both men and women in sustaining recovery, productively reentering their communities, securing stable employment and repairing relationships with family. Outpatient: integrity offers outpatient and intensive outpatient care in hudson county, morris plains, newark and toms river. With morning and evening options, we can accommodate most work, family and school schedules. Supportive housing: our supportive housing programs, located in newark, offer a safe place for men, women, and women and their children to continue working on their recovery while attaining independence and stability for their families. Ccbhc: in newark, the certified community behavioral health clinic (ccbhc) offers comprehensive risk and needs assessment, outpatient mental health and addictions services, 24/7 in-person and telephonic crisis stabilization services, case management, primary care screening and monitoring, peer and family support services, person centered treatment planning, and coordination with health care and social service providers. Mobile community care ===================== in 2023, integrity launched mobile community care (mcc), a major expansion of integrity house's substance use disorder services in the community. Mcc reduces barriers to medications that are proven to be lifesaving for individuals with substance use disorder. Serving essex county residents in high risk areas, mcc engages individuals who experience obstacles in connecting to care at traditional brick-and-mortar facilities. Bringing low-threshold medication and related healthcare services directly to individuals addresses a significant gap in healthcare services. It also helps provide an effective connection to services offered by integrity, including other community engagement activities, such as reach for recovery. Integrity partners with essex county on the reach for recovery initiative. Reach for recovery is a mobile recovery center staffed with an addiction specialist, a peer recovery specialist and a prevention specialist offering assessments, health and wellness screenings, narcan distribution and community resource sharing. Integrity is a longtime partner of hope one newark, a mobile recovery access center that serves individuals who are substance addicted, suffer from mental illness or are challenged by homelessness. With a team of professionals from the city of newark and its partners, the hope one van visits designated newark hotspots to bring services to the city's most vulnerable residents.”

“An independent cpa firm audited the consolidated financial statements of the taxpayer and its affiliate for the years ended june 30, 2024 and june 30, 2023; respectively, and issued consolidated financial statements. An unmodified opinion was issued each year by the independent cpa firm. The organization's finance committee assumes responsibility for oversight of the audit of its consolidated financial statements and the selection of an independent auditor.”

“The organization engaged an independent cpa firm to prepare and issue an audit under the single audit act and omb circular a-133.”