18Th Wonder Improvement Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823815954
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Reading, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6107961383
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $110,304
- Expenses
- $102,108
- Assets
- $23,511
- Liabilities
- $984
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVE TALARICO (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- RUDY RUTH (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DAVE TALARICO (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- RUDY RUTH (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KRITINA MCCOY (SECRETARY/TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Neighborhood improvement projects
What it reported doing in 2024
Wyomssing foundation grant
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 and revenue has grown recently. 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: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.8%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 22.4%; rating input score 22
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.4%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 20.8% of revenue deployed · 22.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 22/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.