Aaron's Acres
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113820295
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lancaster, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7179176101
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,055,082
- Expenses
- $790,747
- Assets
- $2,299,299
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT BIDDLE III (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RISA C PASKOFF (EXECUTIVE DI): $95,357 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Year-round, therapeutically-based, age appropriate recreational programs in a supportive environment that enhances socialization and communication skills for 5-21 year olds with disabilities.
What it reported doing in 2024
The camp progam is a six-week day program. Staff focus on developing and strengthening socialization and communication skills for all campers that often regress during the summer school break. In addition, fine and gross motor skills are addressed through various activities campers engage in. Swimming is daily. The supervisory staff are professionals in the field (special education teachers). Direct staff are at a 1:1 or 1:2 staff to child ratio. A nurse is present at all programs in order to address any medical needs that might arise. During the aaron's acres acts of kindness component, adolescents and young adults have the opportunity to go into the community and engage in service projects. Rather than always being seen as recipients of services, they are realizing that they can give back to others and make a difference in others' lives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.7%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.1%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.91; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.7% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $657K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.