Accessabilities Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251070499
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Butler, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7242831010
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Birth Defects and Genetic Diseases
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,895,370
- Expenses
- $9,667,728
- Assets
- $8,700,199
- Liabilities
- $1,048,940
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBORAH VENDITTI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DEBORAH VENDITTI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $116,229 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of accessabilities, inc. Is to provide services that empower people to achieve greater independence and enhanced quality of life.
What it reported doing in 2024
The first steps early intervention program serves eligible children from birth to age 3, who exhibit a 25% delay in one or more areas of development, or have a known physical or mental condition which has a high probability of resulting in a developmental delay. Individualized family service plans (ifsp) are developed for necessary services and specialized therapies, as well as based upon family's priorities. Accessabilities team of licensed therapists and early education specialists provide services such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, vision therapy, special instruction, nutrition therapy as well as additional strategies such as positive behavioral support, therapeutic listening, sensory integration, feeding and infant massage. The therapists and early education specialists work with the family in the child's home or in the location of the child's caregiver, using the child's natural environment as a learning platform. Early intervention services are provided in-person or by tele-intervention, upon request.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 64% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,194.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.3%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.4% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $8.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $116K · 5 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $660K reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.