10000 Friends of Pennsylvania

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311621197
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2022
Forms available
Form 990 2022
Location
Harrisburg, PA, USA
Phone
7172346070
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$236,425
Expenses
$250,100
Assets
$150,333
Liabilities
$70,572

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STACIE REIDENBAUGH (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • STACIE REIDENBAUGH (CEO): $84,480 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

10,000 friends of Pennsylvania is the nonpartisan voice for creating healthy, vibrant, and resiliant communities in pa. We promote smart growth, resilience, and equity in land use and transportation policy and community development systems.

What it reported doing in 2022

Policy council10,000 friends of Pennsylvania builds healthy, vibrant and resilient communities with sustainable land use, transportation, housing and solutions to inform public policy and build a better Pennsylvania. We engage a network of partners to encourage collaboration, create awareness of policy and legislative solutions and advocate for a balanced approach in public policy and investments to build and sustain strong communities for all pennsylvanians.as a trusted authority on responsible land use, 10,000 friends collaborates with state and local government, community benefit organizations, and the private sector to build coalitions, research issues, and effect change through policy and community development solutions that enhance health, foster innovation, create opportunity, protect the environment and transform communities. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion as connected to our mission and critical to the well-being of the people and communities that we serve. 10,000 friends is currently focused on affordable housing and transportation and infrastructure through the lens of resilience. In affordable housing, we're developing solutions to remove barriers by modernizing zoning and the state municipal planning code and prioritizing stable neighborhoods through blight removal, eviction prevention, homeownership, and housing rehabs and repair. In transportation and infrastructure, 10,000 friends is developing a policy group that prioritizes clean and multi-modal transportation and modernizing funding formulas for federal, state, and regional transportation systems, including a "fix it first/fix it right" perspective on highway and bridges, parity for public transit funding, and innovation in smart transportation systems.

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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 74.3%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $15.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5.8%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 33.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -12.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -11.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 74.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $186K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $84K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2017 to 2022
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.